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 conjecture [kən'dʒɛktʃɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 推测, 猜想, 揣摩

vt. 推测, 猜想, 揣摩

vi. 推测, 猜想, 揣摩

[计] 推测; 猜测


  1. He didn't know the fact; what he said was pure conjecture.
    他并不知道实情,他说的纯属猜测。
  2. The general conjectures that the enemy will launch an attack against us this night.
    将军推测说敌人将于今天晚上突袭我们。
  3. What made you conjecture that?
    是什麽促使你推测出这样的结论?


conjecture
[ noun ]
  1. a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)

  2. <noun.cognition>
    speculations about the outcome of the election
    he dismissed it as mere conjecture
  3. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

  4. <noun.communication>
  5. reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence

  6. <noun.cognition>
[ verb ]
  1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

  2. <verb.cognition> hypothecate hypothesise hypothesize speculate suppose theorise theorize
    Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps


Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Conjectured}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Conjecturing}.] [Cf. F. conjecturer. Cf.
{Conject}.]
To arrive at by conjecture; to infer on slight evidence; to
surmise; to guess; to form, at random, opinions concerning.

Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what
will be. --South.


Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\, v. i.
To make conjectures; to surmise; to guess; to infer; to form
an opinion; to imagine.


Conjecture \Con*jec"ture\ (; 135?), n. [L. conjectura, fr.
conjicere, conjectum, to throw together, infer, conjecture;
con- + jacere to throw: cf. F. conjecturer. See {Jet} a
shooting forth.]
An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive
evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

He [Herodotus] would thus have corrected his first
loose conjecture by a real study of nature. --Whewell.

Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm. --Milton.

  1. That issue, too, is likely to be debated at the Kiev meeting, a gathering that some observers in Moscow conjecture could be the Commonwealth's last.
  2. "That is a matter, and will always be a matter, of conjecture," Carhart said. "This chapter of this tragedy is terminated.
  3. Rates rose in the government securities market following the news, amid conjecture that the Federal Reserve was tightening credit a bit further.
  4. The newspaper's circulation has been a topic of some conjecture. Price said Tuesday that The National is selling close to 200,000 copies daily on average, and expects circulation to approach 400,000 by the end of the year.
  5. Stock prices staged a mild rally in late trading Tuesday amid conjecture that the Federal Reserve might be ready to relax its credit policy by seeking to foster a decline in interest rates.
  6. I conjecture that almost all consumers of medical services, and many producers, would favor a simple reform that would privatize most medical care.
  7. But Nobles and some analysts dismiss that idea as mere conjecture.
  8. Corn opened lower on conjecture that recent rains had helped some drought-stressed corn fields to recover, he said.
  9. How this happened is still a matter of conjecture on Wall Street.
  10. It was helped by conjecture about a possible improvement in the depressed truck manufacturing business.
  11. In addition, it helped conjecture to spread that stocks might be due for a lengthy pause, or a "correction," after their sharp rise over the first eight months of the year.
  12. Whether this comes up between Bush and Gorbachev at their meeting in Helsinki, Finland on Sunday is conjecture at this point. The crisis in the Mideast is paramount.
  13. His 37.5% shooting average has led to conjecture that he is somehow under the weather.
  14. Honeywell, up sharply in recent sessions on takeover speculation, fell back 5 to 81 in the absence of any news to back up the conjecture.
  15. That conjecture stemmed from a rise in the closely watched interest rate on federal funds, or reserves that banks lend each other.
  16. But Monieson's attorney, Jerrold Salzman, said the CFTC's case is flawed, based on "conjecture, speculation" and unreliable evidence.
  17. In all the conjecture about Paul Volcker's departure as Federal Reserve Board chairman, we've seen none that suggests one contributing factor might be the increasing propensity to deny one the pleasure of a good cigar on government turf anywhere.
  18. There was conjecture on Wall Street that either or both companies might have opened themselves up as prospective takeover targets with their announcement last weekend of plans to merge.
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