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

• 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。
• From his letter I surmised that he was unhappy.
  从他的信上看，我估计他并不快乐。
• Einstein never considered coherence, surmised Townes, now at the University of California at Berkeley.
  现在在加州大学柏克莱分校的汤斯推测，爱因斯坦「从没考虑过同调性」。
• He wore a full bodysuit for the first time this season, and Phelps surmised that he'll wear the same gear in Indianapolis.
  这个赛季他第一次穿了件全身式的泳衣，他觉得他会在印第安纳波利斯的比赛中还穿同一款式的衣服。
• They surmised that instant messaging provided an excellent application to test whether a program could enable wait-learning for language vocabulary.
  他们推测即时通信提供了一个很好的应用，可以测试一个程序是否能够允许边等边学词汇。
• 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？
• We may have already surmised that the Gulf sheikhdoms see Iran as a bigger threat than Israel.
  我们可能早已猜到，海湾地区各酋长国把伊朗视为比以色列更大的威胁。
• 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。
• 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。
• He surmised that this was the true situation.
  他推测这就是真正的情势。