sur·mise
verb/səˈmaɪz/
/sərˈmaɪz/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they surmise | /səˈmaɪz/ /sərˈmaɪz/ |
| he / she / it surmises | /səˈmaɪzɪz/ /sərˈmaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple surmised | /səˈmaɪzd/ /sərˈmaɪzd/ |
| past participle surmised | /səˈmaɪzd/ /sərˈmaɪzd/ |
| -ing form surmising | /səˈmaɪzɪŋ/ /sərˈmaɪzɪŋ/ |
- to guess or suppose something using the evidence you have, without definitely knowing
推测；猜测 - surmise (that)… From the looks on their faces, I surmised that they had had an argument.
看他们的脸色，我猜想他们之间发生了争执。 - surmise what, where, etc… It is difficult to surmise where she might have been staying.
很难猜测她可能住在哪里。 - surmise something I can only surmise his reasons for acting as he did.
我只能猜测他这样做的原因。 - + speech ‘They must have been here first,’ Julie surmised.
“他们一定是先到这里的，”朱莉猜测。
Extra ExamplesTopics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2- Both men rightly surmised that he had left the building.
两人都正确地推测他已经离开了大楼。 - What he had done with the money can only be surmised.
他用那笔钱做了什么只能猜测。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the senses ‘formal allegation’ and ‘allege formally’): from Anglo-Norman French and Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre ‘accuse’, from late Latin supermittere ‘put in afterwards’, from super- ‘over’ + mittere ‘send’. - surmise (that)… From the looks on their faces, I surmised that they had had an argument.