surmised

英 [səˈmaɪzd]

美 [sərˈmaɪzd]

v.  推测; 猜测
surmise的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推测;猜测;臆测
  If yousurmisethat something is true, you guess it from the available evidence, although you do not know for certain.
  1. There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened...
     几乎毫无凭据，我们只能猜测发生了什么。
  2. He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets.
     他推测自己已经发现了一条非法活动猖獗的街道。
• N-VAR 猜想;推测;臆测
  If you say that a particular conclusion issurmise, you mean that it is a guess based on the available evidence and you do not know for certain that it is true.
  1. It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting...
     认为博斯在画这幅画时脑子里想着布兰特的诗，这仅仅是猜测而已。
  2. His surmise proved correct.
     他的猜测后来证明是正确的。

双语例句

• "And you don't like him," Edward surmised, his tone still kind.
  “但是，你不喜欢她的新丈夫。”爱德华推测着，声音依然很亲切。
• Many commentators have surmised that as countries such as China become richer and develop a consumer culture, their savings surpluses will diminish.
  许多评论人士猜测，随着中国等国家变得更加富裕，并培养出一种消费文化，它们的储蓄盈余会收窄。
• In a depressing note of austerity, Mr Sutherland surmised that shoppers were abandoning restaurants and staying home on the sofa.
  萨瑟兰以一种沮丧的严肃口吻猜测道，购物者开始放弃酒店，选择待在家里的沙发上。
• Does this simply imply, as many have surmised, that women are better at following Cicero's advice to "resist appearance"?
  这是否就如很多人推测的那样，女人比男人能更好地听取西塞罗的忠告“不受外表的影响”呢？
• The substance of undisclosed talks between Tokyo and Washington can be surmised from disruptions to my recent phone calls to a Japanese journalist colleague.
  东京与华盛顿的秘密对话的内容，可以从我最近与日本同行的电话中断来看出端倪。
• Ere long I heard the click of the latch, and Catherine flew upstairs, breathless and wild; too excited to show gladness: indeed, by her face, you would rather have surmised an awful calamity.
  没有多久，我听见门闩响，凯瑟琳飞奔上楼，上气不接下气，心慌意乱，兴奋得不知该怎么表现她的欢喜了：的确，只消看她的脸，你反而要猜疑将有什么大难临头似的。
• MacArthur surmised that competition equations should be considered as first elements of a Taylor series.
  麦克阿瑟推测，竟争方程应被看作为泰勒级数的首要元素。
• The judge surmised his guilt; there was no proof that he killed the man.
  法官猜度他的罪行；没有证据显示他杀了那个人。
• Augustine surmised this was because ( 1) no one had the slightest clue as to how much a power plant should cost, but ( 2) everyone had an idea of how much a tool shed should cost.
  Augustine推测，出现这种现象的原因在于：（1）没有人知道发电厂到底要花多少钱，（2）而每个人都会对一个工具棚的花费指手画脚一番。
• Scatter [ sow] broadcast The helicopters, some American officials later surmised, were used to spray poison gas on the Kurds.
  用撒播法（播）种（种子）一些美国官员后来猜测，那些直升机被用来向库尔德人播撒毒气。