to implicate
01
牵连, 涉及
to involve or suggest someone's participation or connection in a crime or wrongdoing
Transitive: to implicate sb
例子
Witness testimony served to implicate the suspect in the bank robbery.
证人证词用于牵连银行抢劫案中的嫌疑人。
Evidence collected at the crime scene directly implicated two of the defendants.
在犯罪现场收集的证据直接牵连了两名被告。
02
暗示, 隐含
to convey something indirectly
Transitive: to implicate sth | to implicate that
例子
The actor 's peculiar delivery implicated an unspoken subtext in the character's motivations beyond what was scripted.
演员独特的表演暗示了角色动机中超出剧本的未言明的潜台词。
Though never stated outright, comments from witnesses implicated that the two might have had some prior disagreement.
虽然没有直接说明，但目击者的评论暗示两人之前可能有过一些分歧。
词汇树
implicative
implicature
implicate
