Estimate
['estɪmeɪt] or ['ɛstə,met]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; 'many factors are involved in any estimate of human life'; 'in my estimation the boy is innocent'.
(noun.) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; 'an estimate of what it would cost'; 'a rough idea how long it would take'.
(noun.) the respect with which a person is held; 'they had a high estimation of his ability'.
(noun.) a statement indicating the likely cost of some job; 'he got an estimate from the car repair shop'.
(verb.) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); 'I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds'.
整理:斯特拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person.
(v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land.
(n.) A valuing or rating by the mind, without actually measuring, weighing, or the like; rough or approximate calculation; as, an estimate of the cost of a building, or of the quantity of water in a pond.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Value, appraise, rate, prize, esteem, appreciate, set a value on, set a price on.[2]. Compute, reckon, count, calculate.
n. [1]. Valuation, estimation.[2]. Calculation, computation.
校對:惠特尼
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ESTEEM]
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例句/造句/用法:
- Harness-maker's estimate, so much. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- That's what I estimate in a man in your way of business. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The lowest estimate was made by Lord Kelvin in 1867. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is a tax upon the supposed profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Coach-maker's estimate, so much. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Goldsmith's estimate, so much. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I will not trust thee, Templar, said Rebecca; thou hast taught me better how to estimate the virtues of thine Order. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But though labour be the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities, it is not that by which their value is commonly estimated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He does this strange prospecting with an amount of gravity that can never be estimated or appreciated by a man who has not seen the operation. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We estimated his strength at 70,000. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He estimated the consumption of fuel by a theoretically perfect air engine on Mr. Stirling's principle at 0·37 lbs. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Siemens had in operation a road about one thousand six hundred feet in length, on which it is estimated ninety-five thousand passengers were conveyed in seven weeks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It must be clearly understood by the reader how sketchy and provisional all these time estimates are. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even with this last serious draw-back, however, the lowest of the various estimates given was twenty thousand pounds. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But when the road was opened for use the excess in traffic beyond the estimates was much greater than the excess in cost had been. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The army of these crusaders, according to the lowest estimates, consisted of 90,000 infantry and 40,000 horsemen. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hecker estimates the total as twenty-five million dead. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mulhall estimates that the steam horse power of railroads in the world amounted in 1896 to 40,420,000, of which the United States had more than one-third. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Estimates of the age of the Big Trees vary from the Christian Era through a period dating back beyond the coming of the Christian Saviour about 4,000 years. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Estimating the quantity of water which flows through the trough each second. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The manner of estimating numbers in the two armies differs materially. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The sisters passed in silence through the stone gateway and up the steps, on the red carpet, a policeman estimating their progress. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The place of communication in personal doing supplies us with a criterion for estimating the value of informational material in school. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In estimating the importance and advantage of railway travelling, there must not be omitted its cheapness and comfort, compared with travelling by stage coach. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
校對:苏西