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Surmise Guess True Evidence   [V   [Formal 正式 英

英语单词 surmise
英美音标 英 [sə'maɪz] 美 [sər'maɪz]
中文释义 n.推测
vt.推测;臆测
英语例句 (1) I surmise that he will take the job.
(2) They surmise that inflation in services is being underestimated, causing real growth to be overstated.
中文例句 (1) 我推测他会接受这份工作。
(2) 他们推测是因为低估了服务领域的通胀,因此实际增长才会被高估。
vocabulary简明 If you see the empty ice cream containers, the sprinkles littering the ground, a kicked can of Reddi-wip in the trash, you can surmise what has happened: Sundaes. To surmise is to form an opinion or make a guess about something.
vocabulary扩展 If you surmise that something is true, you don't have much evidence or knowledge about it. Near synonyms are guess, conjecture, and suppose. You might say, "I can't even surmise what he would do in such a situation." Surmise came to English from the French surmettre "to accuse," which is formed from the prefix sur- "on, upon" plus mettre "to put" (from Latin mittere "to send").
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]推测;猜测;臆测 If you surmise that something is true, you guess it from the available evidence, although you do not know for certain.
  [V wh]
  [V that]
  [Also V]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened...

    几乎毫无凭据,我们只能猜测发生了什么。

  • He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets.

    他推测自己已经发现了一条非法活动猖獗的街道。

2
[N-VAR 可变名词]猜想;推测;臆测 If you say that a particular conclusion is surmise, you mean that it is a guess based on the available evidence and you do not know for certain that it is true.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting...

    认为博斯在画这幅画时脑子里想着布兰特的诗,这仅仅是猜测而已。

  • His surmise proved correct.

    他的猜测后来证明是正确的。

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