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单词 second-guess
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second-guess

verb [with object]
1Anticipate or predict (someone’s actions or thoughts) by guesswork: he had to second-guess what the environmental regulations would be in five years' time...
  • Good art institutions should not be about second-guessing the public's taste.
  • But while clothes shoppers are revelling in the dozens of new alleys open to them, manufacturers are despairing as they try to second-guess the kaleidoscopic public mood.
  • We've been trying to second-guess Augusta all week but there's no sense in trying any longer.
2chiefly North American Criticize (someone or something) with hindsight: no one should second-guess police officers whose lives are on the line...
  • As a matter of fact, too often presidents have been criticized for second-guessing those commanders.
  • We are not prone to second-guess police work, but the sniper investigation seems to have been marked by confusion and worse.
  • Once again, Dyllis wished people would stop second-guessing her all the time.
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