英语词汇“second-guess”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sec·ond-guess

(sĕk′ənd-gĕs)

v. sec·ond-guessed, sec·ond-guess·ing, sec·ond-guess·es

v.tr.

1. To criticize or correct after an outcome is known: "One hesitates to second-guess the jury's judgment from a distance of more than sixty years" (Ira Stoll).

2. To criticize, contradict, or overrule (a decision or one who has made a decision): "When he wants to prescribe costly but powerful medicines, faraway HMO clerks second-guess his drug choices" (George Anders)."Sometimes [General Halleck] second-guessed Grant and aired his objections to instructions instead of immediately transmitting them" (Brooks D. Simpson).

a. To outguess.

b. To predict or anticipate: "She can second-guess indictments" (Scott Turow).

v.intr.

To criticize a decision, especially after its outcome is known.

sec′ond-guesser n.

单词	second-guess
释义	sec·ond-guess (sĕk′ənd-gĕs) v. sec·ond-guessed, sec·ond-guess·ing, sec·ond-guess·es v.tr. 1. To criticize or correct after an outcome is known: "One hesitates to second-guess the jury's judgment from a distance of more than sixty years" (Ira Stoll). 2. To criticize, contradict, or overrule (a decision or one who has made a decision): "When he wants to prescribe costly but powerful medicines, faraway HMO clerks second-guess his drug choices" (George Anders)."Sometimes [General Halleck] second-guessed Grant and aired his objections to instructions instead of immediately transmitting them" (Brooks D. Simpson). 3. a. To outguess. b. To predict or anticipate: "She can second-guess indictments" (Scott Turow). v.intr. To criticize a decision, especially after its outcome is known. sec′ond-guesser n.
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