英単語

surmiseの意味・使い方・発音

surmise

英 [sə'maɪz] 美 [sɝ'maɪz]
  • vt. 推測する;推測する
  • vi. 推測する;考える
  • n. 推測する;推測する

語源


surmise

sur-、下、上、-mis、送り出す、置く、語源的には mission、emit と同じ。

英語の語源


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]

例文


1. His surmise proved correct.
彼の推測は後に正しいことが証明された。

2.A very painful surmise arose concerning her character.
は彼女の人格に対して恥ずかしい推測を生んだ。

3.It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant 's poem in mind when doing this painting.
ボースがこの絵を描くときにブラントの詩を頭の中で考えていると考えているのは推測にすぎない。

4.There 's so little to go on,we can only surmise what happened.
ほとんど証拠がないので、何が起こったのか推測するしかありません。

5.She had a guilty look which immediately roused surmise in his mind.
彼女の透き通った表情はすぐに彼の推測を引き起こした。

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