surmise

英 [s?'ma?z] 美[s?'ma?z]

GRE擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?surmises;過(guò)去式:?surmised;過(guò)去分詞:?surmised;現(xiàn)在分詞:?surmising;

surmise 推測(cè)，猜測(cè)

sur-,在下，向上，-mis,送出，放置，詞源同 mission,emit.引申詞義推測(cè)，猜測(cè)。

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.
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.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacifica??and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmisea??
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

[Keats]

2. A very painful surmise arose concerning her character.: 對(duì)她的人格產(chǎn)生了一種令人難堪的猜度.

3. It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.: 認(rèn)為博斯在畫(huà)這幅畫(huà)時(shí)腦子里想著布蘭特的詩(shī)，這僅僅是猜測(cè)而已。

4. There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened.: 幾乎毫無(wú)憑據(jù)，我們只能猜測(cè)發(fā)生了什么。

5. She had a guilty look which immediately roused surmise in his mind.: 她那做賊心虛的神色馬上引起了他的猜測(cè).