| 单词 | estimate |
| 释义 | es·ti·mate I. transitive verb 1. archaic a. b. < a man to estimate and welcome nobleness — George Meredith > 2. a. < the egregious error of supposing that the dramatic merit of a dramatic work could be estimated without reference to its poetic merit — T.S.Eliot > b. < a method of estimating deuterium > < small and manageable numbers of birds must be counted precisely; huge flocks can only be estimated — Time > < a prehistoric skeleton that is estimated by some anthropologists to be at least 20,000 years old — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < estimating the social importance of this movement — C.D.Lewis > c. (1) (2) 3. < he checked the chimneys off one by one and estimated that the fire was in the kitchen — Hugh MacLennan > intransitive verb Synonyms: < we have first to estimate their effects upon complicated social conditions (largely a matter of guesswork) — John Dewey > < let us dispassionately consider the Codex Sinaiticus and try to estimate its position — Aldous Huxley > value may suggest definite but quick and temporary judgments < one may pronounce a play fine or ‘rotten’. If one term such direct characterization valuing, then criticism is not valuing — John Dewey > It may on the other hand suggest more careful judgment < you cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic … criticism — T.S.Eliot > value is used more often than the accompanying words in quick or rash hyperboles < who values his own honor not a straw — Robert Browning > evaluate has less connotational effect than others in this group. It is often used in situations in which criteria or principles of judgment are specified as new or important < the current debate should be evaluated, not in terms of the excess profits tax we had during the last war, but in terms rather of an improved excess profits tax — L.G.Walinsky > < conventional ethical codes are assumed to be invalid or at least impractical for evaluating life as it is — C.C.Walcutt > rate indicates placing in a certain class, status, or bracket, perhaps without much serious reflection < it is a curious thing this friend of yours you rate so monstrous high has not come nigh you in your sore affliction — Edna S. V. Millay > < as copper is rated very much above its real value, so silver is rated somewhat below it — Adam Smith > assay stresses careful analysis before judgment, as with the completeness of scientific methods < alienation in the modern world is a major theme. In his later novels Greene has assayed it with acute analysis and philosophical breadth — J.M.Brinnin > assess likewise stresses careful analysis, as though according to better economic principles < long before he arrived in the capital he had cast up his accounts with himself and made his decision. Soberly he assessed the elements of his power — John Buchan > More than others in this group, appraise may suggest expert and definitive judgment on difficult or subtle matters < the cool, judicial regard, the scholarly eye of this trained historian resting on and appraising the turmoil and hysteria that marked the downfall of Adolf Hitler — Rosemary Benét > < this difficulty of appraising literature absolutely — A.T.Quiller-Couch > Synonym: see in addition calculate. II. 1. a. < the influence of their work upon the health and well-being of millions of Canadians is beyond estimate — F.C.James > b. obsolete c. obsolete 2. < an estimate of a man > < by general estimate at the period, the flour ground at the Brandywine Mills possessed an uncommon softness and whiteness — American Guide Series: Delaware > < in any estimate of human life there are two factors, both of which are extremely difficult to weigh — David Fairchild > < whether it is a benefit at all is a matter of forecast and estimate — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < a generous estimate of one of the most intriguing and stimulating characters in modern fiction — Harrison Smith > : estimation < found that he had dropped somewhat in the estimate of the firm > < powerfully influenced an innocent public's estimate of an unfortunate woman — Ruth P. Randall > < in the last eight lines of the first stanza Keats makes one estimate of how this song could have thus affected him — C.S.Kilby > 3. a. < famous for a map of the inhabited earth and for reasonable estimates of the heights of mountains — Benjamin Farrington > < production figures for planes, tanks, and shipping actually exceeded the estimates projected by the program — Current Biography > < some sort of estimate of the possible future developments — A.G.N.Flew > < impossible to give a precise estimate of the duration of these various Pleistocene ages — W.H.Dowdeswell > b. III. |
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