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单词 to make a shot
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to make a shot
a. A random guess attempting to ‘hit’ the right answer. to make a shot: to attempt an answer by guessing. Also, a shot in the dark, a guess, a random attempt. Cf. dark n. 3.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)]
divine1362
supposea1393
conjecta1425
guessc1535
rove1551
level1580
conjecture1587
to harp at1611
to venture at1623
to make a shot1840
reach1952
the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > [noun] > a conjecture, guess
guessc1330
aimc1450
conjecturea1527
guessing1535
foreguessing1548
fact1566
conjectural1579
surmise1593
speculation1796
shot1840
guesstimate1936
the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt > random
a shot in the dark1895
pot-shot1902
1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins xvii, in New Monthly Mag. After waiting for a little while [in construing], Ninny..made a shot, and went so near the mark, that [etc.].
1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) Prel. ‘Do you want a bed here to-night, Sir?’ asked the waiter..making a shot at the sex of the blue serge bundle.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 Aug. 4/3 I do not believe that yesterday when she was supposed to be doing 15 knots she was really running more than 13. This, however, is only a shot.
1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 9 Feb. 183/1 Never did man make a worse shot in the dark.
1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains xii. 184 I could no longer resist trying a shot in the dark. ‘But you get paid from Paris?’ I had scored a bull.
1950 G. Greene Third Man iv. 39 ‘There's something queer about Harry's death.’ It was a shot in the dark, but already he had this firm instinctive sense that there was something wrong.
1963 Listener 7 Mar. 420/2 It can have been nothing more than a ‘shot in dark’ [sic], but it was a strange prediction none the less.
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