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 as data, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, data is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, data is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
- 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。 - ...the latest year for which data is available...
有可利用资料的最近的年份 - 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
Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program.
- 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。