surmise

• vt. 猜測；推測
• vi. 猜測；認為
• n. 推測；猜度

sur-,在下，向上，-mis,送出，放置，詞源同 mission,emit.引申詞義推測，猜測。

surmise (v.)

c. 1400, in law, "to charge, allege," from Old French surmis, past participle of surmettre "to accuse," from sur- "upon" (see sur- (1)) + mettre "put," from Latin mittere "to send" (see mission). Meaning "to infer conjecturally" is recorded from 1700, from the noun. Related: Surmised; surmising.

surmise (n.)

early 15c., legal, "a charge, a formal accusation," from Old French surmise "accusation," noun use of past participle of surmettre (see surmise (v.)). Meaning "inference, guess" is first found in English 1580s.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

[Keats]

1. His surmise proved correct.

他的猜測後來證明是正確的。

來自柯林斯例句

2. A very painful surmise arose concerning her character.

對她的人格產生了一種令人難堪的猜度.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.

認為博斯在畫這幅畫時腦子裏想著布蘭特的詩，這僅僅是猜測而已。

來自柯林斯例句

4. There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened.

幾乎毫無憑據，我們隻能猜測發生了什麽。

來自辭典例句

5. She had a guilty look which immediately roused surmise in his mind.

她那做賊心虛的神色馬上引起了他的猜測.

來自辭典例句