entailment
gb/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/ us/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
C1
英语
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名词
formal
C1
abstract
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Necessary implication or consequence
a result or implication that something necessarily has
用法模式：
the entailment(s) of [something]; [something] has entailments for [someone/something]
常见错误：
Do not confuse the noun entailment with the verb entail: say “This entails costs,” but “the entailments of this decision.”
近义词
implication (more common and less formal)
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consequence (focuses on the result rather than the necessary connection)
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ramification (often suggests a complex or unwanted consequence)
反义词
cause (what produces something, rather than what follows from it)
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premise (the starting point from which something may follow)
搭配
broader entailments
|practical entailments
|social entailments
|political entailments
|ethical entailments
|legal entailments
|economic entailments
|the entailments of a decision
|consider the entailments
|understand the entailments
主题
communication
|reasoning
|academic
|consequences
例句
- The report examines the political entailments of the proposed security law.
- Accepting the theory has serious entailments for how we understand human memory.
- The ethical entailments of the technology were not discussed at the launch.
学习者例句
- The decision had financial entailments for the whole family.
- We need to think about the entailments of this plan.
名词
technical
C2
relation
2
Truth-guaranteeing logical relation
a logical connection where one statement must be true if another statement is true
用法模式：
entailment between [statements]; entailment from [premises] to [conclusion]; [statement] is an entailment of [statement]
常见错误：
In this sense, entailment is stronger than a suggestion or guess; the second statement must follow from the first.
近义词
logical consequence (the standard term in formal logic)
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implication (broader and sometimes less strict)
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inference (focuses on the act of drawing the conclusion)
反义词
contradiction (a relation where statements cannot both be true)
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non-entailment (the absence of a necessary logical relation)
搭配
logical entailment
|semantic entailment
|entailment relation
|valid entailment
|one-way entailment
|mutual entailment
|test for entailment
|entailment from premises
|entailment between sentences
|the entailment holds
主题
logic
|linguistics
|philosophy
|semantics
|reasoning
例句
- In the sentence “Maria bought a car,” there is an entailment that Maria bought a vehicle.
- The entailment fails because the conclusion could be false even if the premise is true.
- Students learned how to identify entailment between pairs of sentences.
学习者例句
- “All cats are animals” gives the entailment that a cat is an animal.
- If the first sentence is true, the entailment makes the second sentence true too.
名词
legal
C2
rule
3
Restricted inheritance of property
an old legal rule that controls who can inherit a family property
用法模式：
an entailment on [property]; break an entailment; property subject to entailment
常见错误：
This sense is mostly historical. In property law and older novels, the related noun entail is also common.
近义词
entail (the more traditional legal noun for this arrangement)
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fee tail (a more technical property-law term)
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settlement (broader; can refer to other legal arrangements for property)
反义词
fee simple (full ownership that can usually be sold or inherited freely)
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absolute ownership (ownership without this kind of inheritance restriction)
搭配
property entailment
|family entailment
|strict entailment
|estate entailment
|break an entailment
|property subject to entailment
|inheritance entailment
主题
law
|property
|inheritance
|history
例句
- The entailment kept the estate within the eldest son’s line.
- Nineteenth-century novels often turn on an entailment that prevents daughters from inheriting land.
- Lawyers tried to break the entailment so the family could sell the property.
学习者例句
- The entailment meant that only the male heir could inherit the house.
语法
词典原形
entailment
IPA
GB/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
US/ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
音节与重音
en - tail - ment （3 个音节）
Stress on 1st syllable (en)
词形变化
Noun
- Base: entailment
- Plural: entailments
相关表达
logical entailment
1/lˈɑd͡ʒɪkəl ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Formal logical consequence
a strict logical link where the conclusion must be true if the premises are true
例句
- The proof establishes logical entailment from the axioms to the theorem.
- There is no logical entailment from “Some students passed” to “All students passed.”
mutual entailment
1/mjˈut͡ʃuəl ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Two-way necessary implication
when two statements each make the other necessarily true
例句
- If two translations show mutual entailment, they preserve the same core meaning.
- The sentences “The glass is half full” and “The glass is not less than half full” do not always have mutual entailment in ordinary conversation.
semantic entailment
1/sɪmˈæntɪk ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Meaning-based necessary implication
a meaning relation where one sentence makes another sentence necessarily true
例句
- The semantic entailment from “Tom is a bachelor” to “Tom is unmarried” depends on the meaning of bachelor.
- Linguists use semantic entailment to test how sentence meanings are related.
textual entailment
1/tˈɛkst͡ʃˌuəl ˈɛntˈeɪlmənt/
fixed phrase
technical
Text-supported inference relation
when a computer system decides that one piece of text shows another statement is true
例句
- The model was tested on textual entailment: from “A woman is slicing onions,” it should infer “A person is preparing food.”
- Textual entailment datasets are widely used to evaluate natural-language understanding systems.