suspect: [14] Latin suspicere originally meant literally ‘look up at’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘up from under’ and specere ‘look at’, source of English spectator, spy, etc). It evolved metaphorically along two lines: ‘look up to, admire’, which has since died out, and ‘look at secretly’, hence ‘look at distrustfully’, which has passed into English in the form of its past participial stem suspect-. Suspicion [14] comes from the medieval Latin derivative suspectiō. => expect, inspect, spectator, spy, suspicion
suspect (adj.)
early 14c., "suspected of wrongdoing, under suspicion;" mid-14c., "regarded with mistrust, liable to arouse suspicion," from Old French suspect (14c.), from Latin suspectus "suspected, regarded with suspicion or mistrust," past participle of suspicere "look up at, look upward," figuratively "look up to, admire, respect;" also "look at secretly, look askance at," hence, figuratively, "mistrust, regard with suspicion," from assimilated form of sub "up to" (see sub-) + specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)). The notion behind the word is "look at secretly," hence, "look at distrustfully."
suspect (n.)
"a suspected person," 1590s, from suspect (adj.). Earlier as a noun it meant "a suspicion, mistrust" (late 14c.).
suspect (v.)
mid-15c. (implied in suspected), from suspect (adj.) and in part from Middle French suspecter or directly from Latin suspectare "to mistrust," frequentative of suspicere. Related: Suspecting.
雙語例句
1. Investigators say nearly $100,000 was wired into the suspect's bank accounts.
調查人員說有近10萬美元匯入了嫌疑人的銀行賬戶。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Do women really share such stupid jokes? We suspect not.
女人們真的會覺得如此愚蠢的笑話好笑嗎？我們想不會。
來自柯林斯例句
3. I suspect he isn't altogether unhappy about my absence.
我猜想他對我的缺席並沒有感到很不高興。
來自柯林斯例句
4. She has been acclaimed for the TV drama "Prime Suspect"
她憑借電視劇《頭號嫌疑犯》而受到好評。
來自柯林斯例句
5. She did not suspect that his interest was just a passing fancy.