| 单词 | guess |
| 释义 | guess (ges ) Word forms: guesses , guessing , guessed 1. verb A2 If you guess something, you give an answer or provide an opinion which may not be true because you do not have definite knowledge about the matter concerned. The suit was faultless: Wood guessed that he was a very successful publisher or a banker. [VERB that] You can only guess at what mental suffering they endure. [VERB + at] Paula reached for her camera, guessed distance and exposure, and shot two frames. [VERB noun] Guess what I did for the whole of the first week. [VERB wh] If she guessed wrong, it meant twice as many meetings the following week. [VERB adverb] 2. verb A2 If you guess that something is the case, you correctly form the opinion that it is the case, although you do not have definite knowledge about it. By now you will have guessed that I'm back in Ireland. [VERB that] As you've probably guessed, the problem was electrical. [VERB that] He should have guessed what would happen. [VERB wh] Someone might have guessed our secret and passed it on. [VERB noun] 3. countable noun [oft NOUN that, N as to n/wh] B1+ A guess is an attempt to give an answer or provide an opinion which may not be true because you do not have definite knowledge about the matter concerned. My guess is that the chance that these vaccines will work is zero. He'd taken her pulse and made a guess at her blood pressure. [+ at] Well, we can hazard a guess at the answer. [+ at] Synonyms: estimate, reckoning, speculation, judgment 4. anyone's guess/anybody's guess phrase If you say that something is anyone's guess or anybody's guess, you mean that no-one can be certain about what is really true. [informal] Just when this will happen is anyone's guess. It's anybody's guess what happened. 5. at a guess phrase You say at a guess to indicate that what you are saying is only an estimate or what you believe to be true, rather than being a definite fact. [vagueness] At a guess he's been dead for two days. 6. I guess phrase B2 You say I guess to show that you are slightly uncertain or reluctant about what you are saying. [mainly US, informal, vagueness] I guess she thought that was pretty smart. I guess he's right. 'I think you're being paranoid.'—'Yeah. I guess so.' 7. keep someone guessing phrase If someone keeps you guessing, they do not tell you what you want to know. The author's intention is to keep everyone guessing until the bitter end. She was keeping everyone guessing about the latest love in her life. 8. guess what convention You say guess what to draw attention to something exciting, surprising, or interesting that you are about to say. [informal] Guess what, I just got my first part in a movie. Quotations: The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at workThe Process of Education I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical facultyThe Sign of Four Collocations: guess a password They could try to guess a password or the security questions that protect the password should it be forgotten by its owner. Times, Sunday Times It's much harder to steal someone's face than to guess their password. Times, Sunday Times They will use this to guess your password. The Sun A guesser who correctly guessed a password was given a guess at the answer to the puzzle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Live callers were teamed-up with the celebrity hosts and asked to guess the password based upon one-word clues administered by the hosts of the show. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You would hazard a guess there are some huge strings attached. The Sun (2010) Wanna hazard a guess as to how this will play out? Times, Sunday Times (2016) The rest of us can merely hazard a guess. The Sun (2008) To say three or four might be a reasonable guess. Times, Sunday Times A reasonable guess, six weeks ago when the story exploded, was that it might detonate the whole superstructure. Times,Sunday Times Never mind that nobody knows for certain what was there in the first place - at least they can make a reasonable guess. Times, Sunday Times Thankfully, other clues, such as flowering period and habit of growth, will help you to make a reasonable guess, and to provide the right level of care and pruning. Times, Sunday Times But we now know enough to make some reasonable guesses. Times, Sunday Times Go on, stick your neck out — take a wild guess. The Sun (2011) Now take a wild guess who that could be. The Sun (2007) You have to make a wild guess and hope that the paint sticks. Times, Sunday Times (2010) That's pretty precise for a wild guess. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Translations: Chinese: 猜测, 猜测 Japanese: 推測, 推測する |
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