| 单词 | guess |
| 释义 | guess (once / 68 pages) vn When you don't know the answer but you have to say something, you're taking a guess. When you don't know the answer on a test, you have to guess. People on game shows guess when they're not sure. There are wild guesses (when you have no idea) and educated guesses (when you have some information to work with). Trying to guess someone's age or weight is usually a bad idea, especially if you guess too old or heavy. If the teacher doesn't show up, you could say, "I guess there's no class today.” WORD FAMILYguess: guessed, guesser, guesses, guessing+/guesser: guessers/guessing: guessings USAGE EXAMPLESJurors would later see a video of Roof confessing to the crime — “Well, I killed them, I guess,” he said — and offering a racist rationale. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Leading rusher Latavius Murray ran just five times for 11 yards, prompting second guesses from Del Rio. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) What the Trump administration will do with carbon capture is, at this point, anyone’s guess. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v expect, believe, or suppose I guess she is angry at me for standing her up Syn|Hypo|Hyper imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think suspect hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty anticipate, expect regard something as probable or likely 2v put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again Syn|Hypo|Hyper hazard, pretend, venture anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise make a prediction about; tell in advance surmise, suspectimagine to be the case or true or probable readinterpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior outguess, second-guessattempt to anticipate or predict augurpredict from an omen bet, wagermaintain with or as if with a bet calculate, forecastpredict in advance prophesy, vaticinatepredict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration speculate talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion 3v judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) Syn|Hypo|Hyper approximate, estimate, gauge, judge quantise, quantize approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values misgaugegauge something incorrectly or improperly place, put, setestimate giveestimate the duration or outcome of something lowball, underestimatemake a deliberately low estimate assessestimate the value of (property) for taxation makecalculate as being count, reckontake account of truncateapproximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one guesstimateestimate based on a calculation calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out make a mathematical calculation or computation 4v guess correctly; solve by guessing He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize Syn|Hypo|Hyper infer tell discern or comprehend figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work, work out find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of 5n an estimate based on little or no information Syn|Hyper dead reckoning, guessing, guesswork, shot approximation, estimate, estimation, idea an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth 6n a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence Syn|Hypo|Hyper conjecture, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise divination successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck opinion, view a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof |
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