hunch

Word family nounhunchbackhunchadjectivehunchbacked

hunch1 /hʌntʃ/ noun [countableC]

GUESSif you have a hunch that something is true or will happen, you feel that it is true or will happen 直觉，预感 → suspicion

have a hunch (that)

I had a hunch that something like this would happen.

我早有预感会发生这样的事情。

somebody’s hunch

My hunch is that she’s his mother.

我的直觉告诉我她是他母亲。

Examples from the Corpus

hunch• "How did you know the answer?" "I just had a hunch about it."• I have a hunch that Jodie may be planning a surprise party.• It's just a hunch, but it's possible the murderer may have been a woman.• I bought a kayak on a hunch.• I didn't come up with a theory immediately, though I had hunches which were difficult to put into words.• In 1964 he had been prepared to back his hunches.• His hunch had been right after all.• My hunch, though, is that it will.• My hunch that he was lying turned out to be correct.• The doctors investigated their hunch by having 142 randomly selected patients fill out a questionnaire after they re-covered from their anesthesia.• But it is always nice to have your hunches backed up.

have a hunch (that)• If it were, I have a hunch that Fox would come out on top.• I have a hunch about her - she is definitely some one to watch for the future.• I have a hunch that true life starts at the point of recognizing our failure.

hunch2 verb

1 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]BEND to bend down and forwards so that your back forms a curve 弓身，弓背

hunch over

He had to hunch over the steering wheel to see anything.

他不伏在方向盘上就什么都看不见。

2. hunch your shoulders UPto raise your shoulders into a rounded shape because you are cold, anxious etc 〔因寒冷、焦虑等〕耸起双肩

Examples from the Corpus

hunch your shoulders• Lean away from the flexed knee and keep your guard close to your body, but avoid hunching your shoulders.• Then, hunching his shoulders against the pounding rain, he lurched towards the barn.• Schmidt hunched his shoulders and gobbled like a turkey.• He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street.• Ballesteros hunched his shoulders, put his palms up in the air, and raised his dark, thick eyebrows.• He put them on, and peered round the room, hunching his shoulders, shamming the old scholar.

—hunched adjectiveadj

a hunched figure sitting by the fire

弓着背坐在火边的一个身影

Examples from the Corpus

hunch• The molten light from the stove mottled the ceiling, dark furniture hunched away from it along the walls.• His chin hung farther down on his chest as his shoulders hunched closer together.• They left off playing, let go hands and hunched forward as they left the alley and ent red the street.• Seeing Michael Ryan smiling at them, they seemed to crowd together, hunching in their seats.• The impulse to hit is curbed by hunching the shoulders.

hunch over• Lori hunched over to keep the wind out of her face.

单词	hunch
释义	hunch Word family nounhunchbackhunchadjectivehunchbacked hunch1 /hʌntʃ/ noun [countableC] GUESSif you have a hunch that something is true or will happen, you feel that it is true or will happen 直觉，预感 → suspicion have a hunch (that) I had a hunch that something like this would happen. 我早有预感会发生这样的事情。 somebody’s hunch My hunch is that she’s his mother. 我的直觉告诉我她是他母亲。 Examples from the Corpus hunch• "How did you know the answer?" "I just had a hunch about it."• I have a hunch that Jodie may be planning a surprise party.• It's just a hunch, but it's possible the murderer may have been a woman.• I bought a kayak on a hunch.• I didn't come up with a theory immediately, though I had hunches which were difficult to put into words.• In 1964 he had been prepared to back his hunches.• His hunch had been right after all.• My hunch, though, is that it will.• My hunch that he was lying turned out to be correct.• The doctors investigated their hunch by having 142 randomly selected patients fill out a questionnaire after they re-covered from their anesthesia.• But it is always nice to have your hunches backed up. have a hunch (that)• If it were, I have a hunch that Fox would come out on top.• I have a hunch about her - she is definitely some one to watch for the future.• I have a hunch that true life starts at the point of recognizing our failure. hunch2 verb 1 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]BEND to bend down and forwards so that your back forms a curve 弓身，弓背 hunch over He had to hunch over the steering wheel to see anything. 他不伏在方向盘上就什么都看不见。 2. hunch your shoulders UPto raise your shoulders into a rounded shape because you are cold, anxious etc 〔因寒冷、焦虑等〕耸起双肩 Examples from the Corpus hunch your shoulders• Lean away from the flexed knee and keep your guard close to your body, but avoid hunching your shoulders.• Then, hunching his shoulders against the pounding rain, he lurched towards the barn.• Schmidt hunched his shoulders and gobbled like a turkey.• He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street.• Ballesteros hunched his shoulders, put his palms up in the air, and raised his dark, thick eyebrows.• He put them on, and peered round the room, hunching his shoulders, shamming the old scholar. —hunched adjectiveadj a hunched figure sitting by the fire 弓着背坐在火边的一个身影 Examples from the Corpus hunch• The molten light from the stove mottled the ceiling, dark furniture hunched away from it along the walls.• His chin hung farther down on his chest as his shoulders hunched closer together.• They left off playing, let go hands and hunched forward as they left the alley and ent red the street.• Seeing Michael Ryan smiling at them, they seemed to crowd together, hunching in their seats.• The impulse to hit is curbed by hunching the shoulders. hunch over• Lori hunched over to keep the wind out of her face.
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