surmise
verb (formal)to guess or suppose something using the evidence you have, without definitely knowing synonym conjecture推测;猜测 - surmise (that)…
From the looks on their faces, I surmised that they had had an argument. 看他们的脸色,我猜想他们之间发生了争执。 - surmise what, where, etc…
It is difficult to surmise where she might have been staying. 很难猜测她可能住在哪里。 - surmise something
I can only surmise his reasons for acting as he did. 我只能猜测他那样做的原因。 - + speech
‘They must have been here first,’ Julie surmised. “他们一定是先来的,”朱莉猜测道。
Extra ExamplesTopics Doubt, guessing and certaintyc2Both men rightly surmised that he had left the building. 两个人都正确地推测他已经离开了大楼。 What he had done with the money can only be surmised. 他用那笔钱做了什么只能猜测。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the senses ‘formal allegation’ and ‘allege formally’): from Anglo-Norman French and Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre ‘accuse’, from late Latin supermittere ‘put in afterwards’, from super- ‘over’ + mittere ‘send’.- surmise (that)…