data

英 [ˈdeɪtə]

美 [ˈdeɪtə]

n. 数据; 资料; 材料; (储存在计算机中的)数据资料
datum的复数

Oxford 3000 / Collins.4 / BNC.552 / COCA.559

牛津词典

noun

数据；资料；材料
facts or information, especially when examined and used to find out things or to make decisions
1. This data was collected from 69 countries.
  这资料是从69个国家收集来的。
2. the analysis/interpretation of the data
  数据分析 / 解读
3. raw data (= that has not been analysed)
  原始资料
4. demographical/historical/personal data
  人口统计资料；史料；个人资料
5. These data show that most cancers are detected as a result of clinical follow-up.
  这些数据表明多数癌症是由临床随访查出的。
（储存在计算机中的）数据资料
information that is stored by a computer
1. data retrieval (= ways of storing or finding information on a computer)
  数据检索

datum is sometimes used as the singular form of data. datum 有时用作 data 的单数形式。

N-UNCOUNT; also N-PLURAL （尤指可用于分析的）资料，材料，数据（美国英语中通常用作复数名词;在专业或正式的英国英语中有时用作复数名词，有时用作不可数名词)
You can refer to information asdata, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English,datais usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English,datais sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
1. The study was based on data from 2,100 women...
  这项研究基于从 2,100 名女性那里收集来的资料。
2. ...the latest year for which data is available...
  有可利用资料的最近的年份
3. To cope with these data, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.
  为处理这些数据，医院购入了一些大型主机。
N-UNCOUNT (可存储并为计算机程序所用的）数据
Datais information that can be stored and used by a computer program.
1. You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.
  可以把大量的数据压缩到一张CD-ROM上。

noun

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
1. statistical data
Synonym:information

Thank you for furnishing me with so many data.
谢谢你提供我这么多的数据。
The data can subsequently be loaded on a computer for processing.
接下来可将数据载入计算机处理。
The study was based on data from 2,100 women
这项研究基于从2,100名女性那里收集来的资料。
Several processors can share the load of handling data in a single program.
几个处理器可共同分担处理一个程序数据的负荷。
Convinced of the accuracy of the data, they stuck to their opinion.
由于深信数据准确无误，他们坚持自己的意见。
Given data which are free from bias there are further snares to avoid in statistical work
即使数据本身不存在偏差在统计工作中仍需要避免其他陷阱。
McCarthy was asked to analyse the data from the first phase of trials of the vaccine
麦卡锡被要求对第一阶段疫苗试验的数据作出分析。
This is currently the most efficient way to transmit certain types of data like electronic mail
这是目前传送电子邮件等某些类型的数据的最高效方式。
Much of her work is speculative, based on psychoanalytic theory rather than empirical data.
她的著作中有相当一部分内容是推测性的，建立在精神分析理论之上而缺乏来自实际经验的数据。
It can translate data from maps or remote sensing instruments into images.
它可以把从地图或遥感设备中得到的数据转化成为图像。