information, data, message

名詞 data:

1. a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
   同義詞：information

名詞 datum:

1. an item of factual information derived from measurement or research
   同義詞：datum, data point

1. The data should be updated once a week.
   這些數(shù)據(jù)應(yīng)該每星期更新一次。
2. The computer malfunctioned and printed out the wrong data.
   計算機出了故障，印出的資料不正確。
3. Have you recorded the data in disc?
   你已把那些數(shù)據(jù)存儲到磁盤上了嗎？
4. The data stored in a computer can be protected.
   存儲在計算機里的數(shù)據(jù)能被保護起來。
5. The data is still being analyzed.
   資料仍在分析中。
6. Very little data is available.
   現(xiàn)有的資料十分不足。

da.ta

pl.n.(used with a sing. or pl. verb)（復(fù)數(shù)名詞）（與單數(shù)或復(fù)數(shù)動詞連用）
Factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
檔案資料：事實資料，尤指為分析或用作推理或做決定而組織起的信息
Computer Science Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
【計算機科學】 數(shù)據(jù)，資料：數(shù)字信息或其他信息，以適合計算機處理的形式表達
Values derived from scientific experiments.
從科學實驗中提取的價值
Plural of datum
datum的復(fù)數(shù)
pl.n.attributive.（定語復(fù)數(shù)名詞）
Often used to modify another noun:
通常用于修飾另一名詞：
例句：
data communications; data updates.
數(shù)據(jù)通訊；數(shù)據(jù)更新

來源：
Latin [pl. of] datum * see datum
拉丁語 [] datum的復(fù)數(shù) *參見 datum

Data originated as the plural of Latin datum, .something given,. and many maintain that it must still be treated as a plural form.The New York Times, for example, adheres to the traditional rule in this headline:.
Data 來源于拉丁文 datum .給予的事物.的復(fù)數(shù)形式， 而且許多人堅持它必須仍然被當作復(fù)數(shù)形式。例如紐約時報， 就遵循這條傳統(tǒng)規(guī)則， 在這條大字標題中：.
例句：
Data Are Elusive on the Homeless..
無家可歸的資料是難以定義的。.

But whiledata comes from a Latin plural form, the practice of treatingdata as a plural in English often does not correspond to its meaning, given an understanding of what counts as data in modern research.We know, for example, what .data on the homeless. would consist of—surveys, case histories, statistical analyses, and so forth—but it would be a vain exercise to try to sort all of these out into sets of individual facts,each of them a .datum. on the homeless. (Does a case history count as a single datum,or as a collection of themôIs a correlation between rates of homelessness and unemployment itself a datum, or is it an abstraction over a number of dataô)Since scientists and researchers think of data as a singular mass entity like information,it is entirely natural that they should have come to talk about it as such and that others should defer to their practice.Sixty percent of the Usage Panel accepts the use ofdata with a singular verb and pronoun in the sentenceOnce the data is in, we can begin to analyze it. A still larger number, 77 percent, accepts the sentence
但是當data 來源于一拉丁復(fù)數(shù)形式， 在英語中把data 當作復(fù)數(shù)來對待的運用常常和它的意義不相符合， 給了我們在現(xiàn)代研究中算作數(shù)據(jù)事物的一種理解。例如，我們知道，.無家可歸人的資料.將由調(diào)查、個人歷史，數(shù)據(jù)分析等等構(gòu)成——但是試著把這些都分類到一套個人事實將會是一次無用的嘗試，他們中的每一個都為無家可歸人的資料。 （個人歷史是算作一個簡單的資料，還是作為其中的一個收集ô無家可歸人的比率和失業(yè)之間的聯(lián)系是一個資料，還是一系列資料中的一個提取？）既然科學家和研究工作者認為資料和信息一樣是一個單一的團體，他們就應(yīng)該這樣地來談?wù)撍⑶移渌娜藨?yīng)當服叢他們的說法，這是完全自然的，百分之六十的用法專題使用小組成員接受把data 和單數(shù)動詞和代詞連用， 如在句子一旦資料來了，我們就能開始分析了 中， 更大的比例，即百分之七十七的成員接受了句子
例句：
We have very little data on the efficacy of such programs,
在這樣項目的功效上，我們幾乎沒有資料，

where the singularity ofdata is implicit in the use of the quantifier very little (contrast the oddness ofWe have very little facts on the efficacy of such programs ).
在這里，data 的單數(shù)無保留地用在量詞 very little很少 中 （和特例我們對這一項目的效力上，幾乎沒有多少事實 用法相反）