surmise是什么意思

surmise

英 [s?'ma?z] 美 [s?'ma?z]

surmise 推測，猜測

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 Pacifica??and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmisea??
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

[Keats]

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.

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里想著布蘭特的詩，這僅僅是猜測而已。

4. There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened.: 幾乎毫無憑據，我們只能猜測發生了什么。

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.