| 释义 |
outguess, v.|aʊtˈgɛs|
[f. out- 18 b + guess v.]
trans. To outwit (someone) by guessing more cleverly or shrewdly.
1913Jrnl. Animal Behaviour III. 90 It was clearly a case of the chick ‘outguessing’ the experimenter. 1921E. O'Neill Emperor Jones i. 163, I kin outguess, outrun, outfight, an' outplay de whole lot o' dem all ovah de board. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind i. v. 78 Mammy sighed resignedly, beholding herself outguessed. 1956‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 187, I don't know whether he outguessed me or whether he was just lucky. 1972P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth iii. 44 Her function in the story is to warn them, and herself, to tend to the duty in hand and not rashly to presume that finite minds can outguess the supreme architect who plans the whole. 1975Publishers Weekly 6 Jan. 52/3 Murders and cover-ups follow, with the reader trying to outguess the author all the way. |