surmise
surmise 英 [səˈmaɪz] 美 [sərˈmaɪz]
vt. 猜测；推测 vi. 猜测；认为 n. 推测；猜度
进行时:surmising 过去式:surmised 过去分词:surmised 第三人称单数:surmises 名词复数:surmises
- If you see empty ice cream containers on the table, sprinkles littering the ground, and a can of whipped cream in the trash, you can surmise what happened: someone made sundaes. To surmise is to form an opinion or make a guess about something.
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- vt. 猜测；推测
- vi. 猜测；认为
- n. 推测；猜度
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1. From his words we can surmise that the two people barely know each other.
很显然从他的话中我们可以猜测到这两个人并不认识对方。
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2. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end?
这是开始，没错；但当你还没有看到结果如何的时候，你怎么能确切地知道，即使是猜测到，结果呢？
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3. As societies age, we surmise, they spend more on health care and retirement services and less on things like flat-screen TVs, second or third cars, or dress clothes.
对于老龄社会，我们推测，他们消费在健康保健和退休服务方面的钱多，而消费在平板电视，第二、第三辆车或者服装等方面的钱少。
- surmise (n.) early 15c., legal, "a charge, a formal accusation," from Old French surmise "accusation," noun use of past participle of surmettre (see surmise (v.)). Meaning "inference, guess" is first found in English 1580s.
- surmise (v.) c. 1400, in law, "to charge, allege," from Old French surmis, past participle of surmettre "to accuse," from sur- "upon" (see sur- (1)) + mettre "put," from Latin mittere "to send" (see mission). Meaning "to infer conjecturally" is recorded from 1700, from the noun. Related: Surmised; surmising.
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