| 单词 | guess |
| 释义 | guess I. transitive verb 1. a. < could only guess what the final result of this study would be > < guessed his age and missed by five years > < correctly guessed the height of the building > < looked at the sky and guessed that there would be rain before morning > : assume, deduce, infer < the theory has first to be guessed, and its consequences drawn out and tested afterwards — Maurice Cranston & J.W.N.Watkins > < what can be deduced and guessed from these quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore — A.M.Young > b. < amused themselves by guessing the identity of their fellow passengers > < a prize for guessing correctly the number of beans in a beanbag > < guess which hand holds a coin > 2. a. < guessed my age the first time > < an amazing ability at guessing riddles > < an attempt to guess the acrostic with more than half the lines unsolved — J.E.S.Thompson > < new words can be guessed, shades of meaning deduced from a second reading — J.M.Barzun > b. < an objective the full nature of which may not have been guessed — Mary Austin > < enough is said for the reader to guess something of what it must have meant to stand at last on the summit of the world — E.F.Norton > 3. < guess I'll go to bed > < said he guessed he knew as much as the next man > < thought for a moment and then answered that he guessed so > < what saved him, I guess, was his unfaltering sense of the ridiculous — Giles Romilly > intransitive verb < if you don't know the answers, guess > < a matter we can only guess about > < guessed wrong > < guessed at the probable outcome of the discussions > Synonyms: see conjecture II. < when he had made his scientific guess, his hypothesis, he computed what ought to happen, if it were true, in certain definite cases — Josiah Royce > • - by guess and by god III. dialect England, of a cow or ewe |
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