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

• From his letter I surmised that he was unhappy.
  从他的信上看，我估计他并不快乐。
• That electrically charged particles reside within atoms had been surmised since the time of Faraday.
  从法拉第的时代起，人们就已推测到，在原子内存在着带电的粒子。
• The lust question, Turing surmised, was the key one.
  图林猜测，这最后一个问题大概是关键问题。
• From what he said I surmised that she was not very well.
  从他所说的，我猜想她的身体不太好。
• In fact, that Wall was probably from the Tang Dynasty, Will later surmised.
  事实上，Will后来猜测那幅城墙有可能是唐代的。
• 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。
• The reviewers surmised that other outside factors might have a bigger role ininfluencing participants'eating habits.
  Edward解释道，其他因素可能在影响受试者饮食习惯方面具有更重要的作用。
• 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？
• 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。
• We surmised that he must have had an accident.
  我们猜想他一定出事了。