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| | the action of saying what you think is true or will happen , without being certain 猜测；推测 | have/make/take a guess Have a guess and then check it on your calculator. 先估测一下，然后用计算器再验证一遍。 | | +at Take a guess at what’ s behind this screen. 猜猜看，这个屏幕后面有什么。 | | +as to a guess as to the number of people who might come 关于有多少人会来的推测 | | rough guess (=one that is not expected to be accurate) A rough guess would be twenty. 粗略的推测 | | wild guess (=one that is very unlikely to be accurate) OK, I’ ll make a wild guess, but I really don’ t know. 大胆的推测 | | good/lucky/inspired guess The researchers made several inspired guesses about how the brain works. 研究者们就大脑如何工作的问题作了一些很有见地的推测。 | | educated/informed guess (=one that is based on some knowledge) I could probably make an educated guess. 有根据的猜测 | | hazard a guess (=make a guess that will probably not be accurate) We can only hazard a guess at what happened. 冒险猜测一下 | |
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| - | at a guess mainly spoken
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| used for making it clear that what you are saying is a guess , and it is likely to not be correct |
| 凭猜测 |
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| - | best guess
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| 1 | an opinion about the thing that is most likely to happen 最有可能的情况 | We don’ t have enough information even to give a best guess. 因为没有足够的信息我们甚至无法猜测最有可能的情况。 | |
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| 2 | an opinion about the best thing that could happen 最好的情况 | Our best guess is that we’ ll be ready in two weeks. 最好的情况是我们在两周之内能准备好。 | |
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| - | I’ ll give you three guesses spoken
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| used for saying that someone has to try and guess something , because you will not tell them , often because the answer is very obvious |
| 我让你猜三次 |
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| - | sth is anyone’ s guess
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| used for saying that something is not known by anyone |
| 谁都不知道某事物；谁都拿不准某事物 |
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| What this all means is anybody’ s guess. 谁都不知道这一切意味着什么。 |
| It’ s anyone’ s guess who’ ll win the election. 谁都不知道谁会赢得竞选。 |
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| - | my guess is (that) spoken
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| used when you are saying what you think will happen , or what you think has happened |
| 我的猜测是…；我想… |
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| - | your guess is as good as mine spoken
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| used for telling someone that you know as little about something as they know |
| 我和你一样都不知道 |
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| Words frequently used with guess | | guess 的常见搭配词 | | adjectives | educated, good, informed, inspired, lucky, rough, wild, | 1 | | | |
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