He was portrayed as a hero and, by inference, Thompson as the villain.

【inference】他被描写成英雄，由此推论，汤普森则成了恶棍。

Supposing a life-threatening virus could be controlled, by inference viruses would no longer constitute a threat to our well-being.

假如一种致使的病毒能够得到控制，可以推测，病毒将不再对我们的健康产生威胁。

The goal is to introduce a method of learning used by humans all the time--learning by inference— like looking at the instructions for assembling an IKEA chair.

目标是引入一种人类一直使用的学习方法——通过推理学习——就像查看组装宜家椅子的说明一样。

Since my own environment does not have easily defined physical elements, you will be able to understand its nature by inference, as I explain some related topics throughout this book.

由于我自己的环境没有容易定义的物理元素，你将能够通过推理来理解它的本质，正如我在本书中解释的一些相关主题一样。

Some knowledge of past events, for example what we learn through reading history, is on a par with the knowledge we can acquire concerning the future: it is obtained by inference, not (so to speak) spontaneously.

一些关于过去事件的知识，例如我们通过阅读历史学到的知识，与我们可以获得的关于未来的知识是同等的：它是通过推理获得的，而不是（可以说）自发获得的。