guesswork

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guess·work /ˈɡeswɜːk $ -wɜːrk/ noun [uncountableU]

GUESSthe method of trying to find the answer to something by guessing 猜测，推测

There’s a lot of guesswork in these calculations.

这些计算中有多处都是推测。

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guesswork• It is all guesswork, but we can not help thinking about it, and I have thought a great deal about it.• Our comprehension, however, based as it is on observation, intuition, and guesswork is always only partial.• Our judgements depend upon complicated interconnected combinations of sense-data, reasoning, and guesswork.• But that could have been guesswork.• The docs' guesswork just goes to show how miraculously improbable human health really is.• Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.• Many of Carey's price estimates are based on guesswork.• At the beginning, the police investigation was largely based on guesswork.• It's important to find out what consumers want to buy, rather than relying on guesswork.• "How did you know where she'd gone?" "It was pure guesswork."• Discipline yourself to minimize opinion, disregard hearsay and reject guesswork.• But it was more than guesswork.

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BNC: 19630 COCA: 20577

guesswork

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + GUESSWORK | PHRASES

ADJECTIVE

➤pure純屬猜測

▸➤educated基於知識的猜測

◇Their results owe more to educated guesswork than to actual knowledge.他們的成果與其說是基於實際的知識，還不如說是基於知識的猜測。

VERB + GUESSWORK

➤be based on基於推測

◇Their price estimates are based on pure guesswork.他們的估價完全是猜的。

➤involve包含猜測

➤eliminate排除猜測

PHRASES

➤a matter of guesswork一種猜測

◇Long-term forecasts were largely a matter of guesswork.遠期預測在很大程度上是一種猜測。

➤take the guesswork out of sth排除某事中的不確定因素

◇weekly shopping lists that take the guesswork out of meal planning打消人們對一日三餐食譜猜測的每週購物清單

BNC: 19630 COCA: 20577

guesswork noun
⇨ speculation

BNC: 19630 COCA: 20577

guesswork

Guesses and estimates: guess, estimate, speculation...