guess

guess 主要表示在信息不足时猜测答案或作出不完全确定的判断；作名词时指一次猜测，作动词时还可表示“猜中”以及口语中的“我想、我觉得”。

💡 记忆钩子

把未知的答案想象成藏在雾里的东西：你先伸手“猜”一个可能的位置，这个动作是 guess，伸手猜出的结果是 a guess；如果碰巧碰对了，就是“猜中”。后来它又自然延伸为对不确定事情的“我想、我觉得”，有时只是口语中的判断，并不一定真的在解谜。

📝 学习建议

学习时先掌握“猜测”和“猜中”这条主线，再记住口语中的“我想、我觉得”。
不要把 guess 一律理解成毫无根据的瞎猜；它也可以是在证据不完整时作出的合理推测。
不要把 guess 当成“知道”；说话人通常是在表示信息不完整、判断带有推测性，或用口语方式缓和语气。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 猜测；估计

📖 指在不知道确切答案时，凭已有信息或直觉提出一个可能的答案或结果。它强调答案尚未得到事实充分支持，而不表示这个答案一定错误。

💡 常用“take a guess”表示“猜一下”，也可说“a guess about + 名词”表示“对某事的猜测”。它通常指一个具体的猜测，因此常和不定冠词连用。中文学习者不要把 guess 误解为只能指毫无根据的瞎猜。

If you don't know the answer, take a guess.

如果你不知道答案，就猜一下。

My guess is that the train will be late.

我猜火车会晚点。

guesses plural

verb

core 猜测；推测

📖 指面对未知情况时，试着从不完整的信息中推断出一个可能的解释或结果。这个动作就是把雾中的目标先估出一个位置，不保证结论正确。

💡 常用“guess at + 名词”表示“推测某事”，也可用“guess what/why/how...”引出疑问从句。它说明说话人没有完全确定，因此不能随意替换成表示确知的词。中文学习者常漏掉介词 at，或把这种推测误说成已经知道的事实。

We can only guess at what was going through her mind.

我们只能猜测她当时在想什么。

Can you guess why the door is locked?

你能猜出门为什么锁着吗？
common 猜中；猜对

📖 表示先提出一个不确定的答案，后来这个答案恰好正确，重点落在“猜对了”这一结果上。

💡 常用“guess + 答案/谜语/结果”表示试着猜某个对象，也可在上下文中单独表示“猜对了”。它仍然保留“原先并不确定”的意味，不等同于有充分依据地算出答案。中文学习者不要只把 guess 理解为猜测过程而忽略它可以表示结果正确。

She guessed the answer on her second try.

她第二次尝试就猜对了答案。
common 猜想；估计

📖 在美式英语口语中，guess 可以用来提出一个不太确定的设想，意思接近“我猜可以……”“我估计……”，不一定是在真正解答问题。

💡 常见句型是“I guess + 从句”，用来提出可能性或较随意的建议。这个用法带有美式口语色彩，语气通常比直接断言更保留余地。不要把这里的 guess 机械地译成“猜答案”；它往往只是表示说话人的估计。

US

I guess you could try ordering it online.

我想你可以试试在网上订购。
common 我想；我觉得

📖 在非正式会话中，尤其是第一人称里，guess 还可表示说话人的判断或结论，重点不一定是“不确定”，而是用一种随意、缓和的方式表达“我觉得”。

💡 最典型的模式是“I guess + 从句”，也常单独说“I guess so”或“I guess you’re right”。它属于口语表达，通常不宜在正式论证中用来代替明确的判断。第三人称形式较少见，中文学习者不要把每个“I guess”都理解成正在认真猜谜。

colloquial

I guess you were right after all.

我想你终究还是对的。
rare 凭记忆复述

📖 这是过时用法，指尽量凭记忆把听过或见过的话、内容重新说出来，可看作从“估出原来的内容”这一核心意思延伸而来。

💡 这是过时用法，现代英语中不应主动使用；遇到这类意思时通常根据上下文理解为“凭记忆复述”。

obsolete

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📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 6 组

expect, believe, or suppose; ; ;

同义词集: think opine suppose imagine reckon guess

I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel

I thought to find her in a bad state

he didn't think to find her in the kitchen

I guess she is angry at me for standing her up

上位: anticipate, expect 下位: suspect

guess correctly; solve by guessing

同义词集: guess infer

He guessed the right number of beans in the jar and won the prize

上位: figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work, work out 下位: tell

judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

同义词集: estimate gauge approximate guess judge

I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds

上位: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out 下位: assess, count, give, lowball, make, place, put, reckon, set, underestimate 参见: lowball, overestimate, overrate, underestimate

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;

同义词集: guess venture pretend hazard

I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again

I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong

上位: speculate 下位: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise, surmise, suspect

an estimate based on little or no information

同义词集: guess guesswork guessing shot dead reckoning

上位: approximation, estimate, estimation, idea

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

同义词集: guess conjecture supposition surmise surmisal speculation hypothesis

上位: opinion, view 下位: divination

🌳 词源

来自中古英语，可能经由古诺斯语及其他北日耳曼语词源传入，最终与表示“取得、抓住”的日耳曼语词根有关；词源关系并非完全确定。

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.

🔄 变式

- imperat guessed 1st_sg guessedst archaic guesses plural guessest archaic guesseth archaic guessing present

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