It's like an inference question, but it asks WHY the author includes a particular piece of information.

它有点像推断题，但是它问的是为什么作者提到了某个信息。

An inference is a guess, opinion, or conclusion that you make based on the information you already have.

推论是基于已有信息做出的猜测、观点或结论。

You see that it uses the word " inferred" , so that clearly tells you that it's an inference question.

可以看到题目中出现了 " inferred" , 所以这明显是一道推断题。

And we want to make an inference about this.

我们想对此做出推断。

The thing is simply an inference of my own—an induction, as the philosophers say.

这件事只是我自己的一个推论——如哲学家所说的归纳法。

But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.

但是， 在清教徒性格的早期严重性中，这种推论是不能如此毫无疑问地得出的。

And an inference is a guess or conclusion that you make based on the information you already have, like inferring fire from seeing smoke.

inference是基于已有信息做出的猜测或结论，例如从看到烟推断出火。

The real table, if there is one, is not immediately known to us at all, but must be an inference from what is immediately known.

如果有的话， 我们根本无法立即知道， 但必须是从立即知道的内容中得出的推论。

For example, seeing smoke in the distance you would make an inference that there's fire. It's these types of deeper, more subtle understanding that we get from reading books.

例如，看到远处的烟雾，你会推断那里有火。这种更深入、更微妙的理解正是我们通过阅读纸质书获得的。

What they're looking for is your ability to pick out factual information that is directly stated in the text, so different from an inference question, where you're figuring out what's implied.

它们是想测试你直接在文字中找出事实信息的能力，不同于推理题，推理题需要你找出暗示的意义。

" Must, " although it can also the same in the sense of obligation (something that is necessary), is often used to express what we might call an inference.

“必须”，尽管它在义务（必要的东西）的意义上也可以是相同的， 但经常被用来表达我们所谓的推论。

Knowing that his uncle did not die by violence, it may not have occurred to him, in the hurry of the crisis, that such an inference might be drawn.

知道他的叔叔没有死于暴力， 他可能没有想到， 在危机的匆忙中， 可能会得出这样的推论。

That the dog behaves in this way is matter of observation, but that it " knows" or " remembers" anything is an inference, and in fact a very doubtful one.

狗以这种方式行事是观察的问题， 但它“知道” 或“记住” 任何事情都是一种推论， 实际上是一种非常可疑的推论。

It's in between what's written, but there is an inference that our version of Jimmy's mother at a time of him coming a man, you know, hitting puberty and having sort of burgeoning sexuality.

虽然是在字里行间，但有一个推论，我们对吉米的母亲的描述是在他成长为一个男人的时候，你知道，进入青春期，性征迅速成长。

For example, we saw, in our early chapters, that knowledge of physical objects, as opposed to sense-data, is only obtained by an inference, and that they are not things with which we are acquainted.

例如，我们在前面的章节中看到，与感觉材料相反的物理对象的知识只能通过推理获得，它们不是我们所熟悉的事物。

The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.

牧师的谈话并不总是鼓舞人心：他逃脱了法利赛人的身份， 但他并没有逃脱对可能性的低估， 我们宁愿仓促地得出结论， 作为我们自己失败的推论。