IN THE late 1700s William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, created the bar chart, pie chart and line graph.

18世纪后期，一位名叫威廉·普莱费尔的苏格兰工程师发明了柱状图、饼状图和线状图，这些发明堪称视觉方面的突破与创新。

But the scale can also be distorted along the x-axis, usually in line graphs showing something changing over time.

另一方面，x 轴的间距也是可以被扭曲的，这种扭曲通常发生在呈现某事物随着时间改变的线形图上。

The simple line graph and pie chart are being supplemented by things like colourful, animated bubble charts, which can present more variables.

动画泡泡图正在使简单的线状图和饼状图变得丰富起来，它们能够呈现更多变量而且色彩也更丰富。

And you have a graph, it's a line graph or a line chart showing exports to China, India, Japan and the USA.

你看到一张图表，这是一个折线图，显示了对中国、印度、日本和美国的出口情况。

In academic writing task 1, you're gonna have to interpret data that you're going to see in bar charts, pie charts, line graphs.

在学术写作第一题中，你需要解释数据，你将在条形图、饼图、折线图中看到这些数据。

We've already talked about pie charts, bar charts, and line graphs; these are all types of charts.

我们已经讨论过饼图、条形图和折线图；这些都是图表类型。

This line graph shows that these figures have held steady over the four months we've conducted these focus groups.

这张折线图显示，在我们进行这些焦点小组讨论的四个月里，这些数字一直保持稳定。

Sometimes, questions include a combination of different data types, so you might have a line graph and a table, or two different maps, for example.

有时，问题包括不同数据类型的组合，所以你可能会看到如线状图和表格，或两种不同的地图。

Usually, a line graph is used to indicate changes over time, over several days or several months or several years.

通常，折线图用于表示随时间、几天或几个月或几年的变化。

You might also see this one, this one is called a line graph; or you might see this, which is called a bar graph.

你可能还会看到这个， 这个叫做折线​​图；或者您可能会看到这个， 称为条形图。

Next video, we're going to talk about line graphs and how to manage your vocabulary and diversify your vocabulary so that you can talk about that in many different ways.

在下一个视频中，我们将讨论线形图以及如何措辞并让你的词汇多样化，从而你可以以不同的方式谈论它。