词汇精选：guess的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

猜测；推测 [C]

例句：

Make a guess at the answer.

猜一下答案。

例句：

As to the author of the book, I will hazard a guess.

关于这本书的作者，我来试猜一下。

v.

猜测，推测 [I,T]

例句：

I can guess what will happen next.

我能推测出接着会发生什么事。

例句：

We can only guess at the result.

我们只能猜测结果。

猜出，猜着，猜中 [I,T]

例句：

I guessed his thoughts.

我猜着了他的想法。

例句：

To look at her, you'd never guess that she was a university teacher.

从外表判断，你绝不会猜到她是位大学教师。

想，认为 [I,T]

例句：

I guess you do get wiser as you get older.

我想你年纪越大，真是变得越聪明。

例句：

I guess the boy has been inspired by somebody else.

我猜这个孩子是受别人唆使的。

二、词义辨析：

assume,presume,suppose,guess,postulate

这些动词均含为“假设，猜想，推测”之意。assume指有很少或完全无根据的武断推测或不合逻辑的推理。presume侧重以过去经验或根据现实的某些感觉把某事认定为是事实。suppose常用词，意义较广泛，指缺乏确切事实，根据一些现象进行的推测，也可指为论证而提出合乎逻辑推理的某种假定，有时仅表示自己的意见。 guess常用词，指毫无根据仅凭个人主观臆断或碰运气的猜测。postulate指为证实一个理论的正确性而进行的假设。

三、参考例句：

Guess what

结果呢？

I guess not.

我猜不是。

Have a guess.

猜一猜。

Guess! What's that?

猜！那是什么？

I can guess your age.

我能猜测你的年龄。

I guess that counts too.

我想那很重要。

But guess what It will!

但猜猜会怎样？会好起来的！

Can you guess the meaning

你能猜出其中的意思吗？

Guess what I did yesterday.

猜一猜我昨天干什么了。

Guess who I stumbled across!

猜猜我碰到谁了！