GUESSif you have a hunch that something is true or will happen, you feel that it is true or will happen 直觉,预感 → suspicion
have a hunch (that)
I had a hunch that something like this would happen.
我早有预感会发生这样的事情。
somebody’s hunch
My hunch is that she’s his mother.
我的直觉告诉我她是他母亲。
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hunch• "How did you know the answer?" "I just had a hunch about it."• I have a hunch that Jodie may be planning a surpriseparty.• It's just a hunch, but it's possible the murderer may have been a woman.• I bought a kayak on a hunch.• I didn't come up with a theory immediately, though I had hunches which were difficult to put into words.• In 1964 he had been prepared to back his hunches.• His hunch had been right after all.• My hunch, though, is that it will.• My hunch that he was lying turned out to be correct.• The doctors investigated their hunch by having 142 randomly selectedpatientsfill out a questionnaire after they re-covered from their anesthesia.• But it is always nice to have your hunches backed up.
have a hunch (that)• If it were, I have a hunch that Fox would come out on top.• I have a hunch about her - she is definitely some one to watch for the future.• I have a hunch that true life starts at the point of recognizing our failure.
hunch2 verb
1[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]BEND to bend down and forwards so that your back forms a curve 弓身,弓背
hunch over
He had to hunch over the steering wheel to see anything.
他不伏在方向盘上就什么都看不见。
2.hunch your shouldersUPto raise your shoulders into a rounded shape because you are cold, anxious etc 〔因寒冷、焦虑等〕耸起双肩
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hunch your shoulders• Lean away from the flexedknee and keep your guard close to your body, but avoidhunching your shoulders.• Then, hunching his shoulders against the poundingrain, he lurched towards the barn.• Schmidt hunched his shoulders and gobbled like a turkey.• He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street.• Ballesteros hunched his shoulders, put his palms up in the air, and raised his dark, thickeyebrows.• He put them on, and peered round the room, hunching his shoulders, shamming the old scholar.
—hunchedadjectiveadj
a hunched figure sitting by the fire
弓着背坐在火边的一个身影
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hunch• The molten light from the stove mottled the ceiling, darkfurniturehunched away from it along the walls.• His chinhung farther down on his chest as his shouldershunched closer together.• They left off playing, let go hands and hunched forward as they left the alley and ent red the street.• Seeing Michael Ryan smiling at them, they seemed to crowd together, hunching in their seats.• The impulse to hit is curbed by hunching the shoulders.
hunch over• Lori hunched over to keep the wind out of her face.