guess

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 gĕs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
    — If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
动词 v.
  1. To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
    — We can only guess at what was going through her mind.
  2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
    — He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
  3. To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
    — That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
  4. To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess". colloquial
    — "I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
  5. To hit upon or reproduce by memory. obsolete
    — Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
assume conjecture hypothesize speculate suppose surmise take a stab
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”).
Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
词源 2
From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”).
Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
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