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词汇 guesswork
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Definition of guesswork in English:

guesswork

nounˈɡɛswəːkˈɡɛsˌwərk
mass noun
  • The process or results of guessing.

    猜测,推测;猜测的结果

    answering this question will involve you in a certain amount of guesswork
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If we heeded all the hype, accidents would be eliminated, yet this involves too much speculation and guesswork.
    • Details of the deal were not disclosed by the principals or anyone else connected with it - a reason why there was so much guesswork in the press last week.
    • As a result, he said, intelligence was mainly ‘inferential’ - that means guesswork.
    • All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
    • There's a huge amount of educated guesswork involved in these chronologies.
    • However, I'll add a disclaimer to say that everything here is just conjecture and guesswork, if you know otherwise then let me know.
    • So there's a certain amount of guesswork or predicting that goes into it.
    • It may be that a certain amount of guesswork was involved.
    • We don't, but we cannot go to war on guesswork, hypothesis and speculation.
    • But how many of them are left in the rest of Africa is guesswork, and as a result, their decline may be easily overlooked.
    • The cards were completed laboriously and with a fair amount of guesswork.
    • In practice this is largely going to be a matter of guesswork though so you can't really plan too deeply.
    • We know she has a sense of humour, we know she likes animals, but other than that, regardless of how much research you do, it's really all guesswork.
    • Plus, all drawings are full-size, so there is no guesswork involved.
    • But this is only guesswork and it is hoped that an expert from one of the universities might be enlisted to help solve the problem.
    • Well, that was just guesswork, so I decided to make myself really depressed and run a spreadsheet on it.
    • While there is a fair bit of guesswork and assumption involved, parties reckon they can narrow down who voted for them and who didn't.
    • They are entirely guesswork, speculative and based on unsound mathematics designed to promote the private healthcare system.
    • We can effectively only work with reported numbers, as the total number of cases is guesswork.
    • In the meantime, a certain amount of guesswork appears inevitable.
    Synonyms
    guessing, conjecture, surmise, supposition, assumption, presumption, suspicion, speculation, hypothesizing, theorizing, prediction, expectation
    approximations, rough calculations
    feelings, hunches
    informal guesstimates
    North American informal ballpark figures

Definition of guesswork in US English:

guesswork

nounˈɡɛsˌwərkˈɡesˌwərk
  • The process or results of guessing.

    猜测,推测;猜测的结果

    answering this question will involve you in a certain amount of guesswork
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So there's a certain amount of guesswork or predicting that goes into it.
    • All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
    • If we heeded all the hype, accidents would be eliminated, yet this involves too much speculation and guesswork.
    • We know she has a sense of humour, we know she likes animals, but other than that, regardless of how much research you do, it's really all guesswork.
    • However, I'll add a disclaimer to say that everything here is just conjecture and guesswork, if you know otherwise then let me know.
    • They are entirely guesswork, speculative and based on unsound mathematics designed to promote the private healthcare system.
    • We don't, but we cannot go to war on guesswork, hypothesis and speculation.
    • But how many of them are left in the rest of Africa is guesswork, and as a result, their decline may be easily overlooked.
    • It may be that a certain amount of guesswork was involved.
    • Well, that was just guesswork, so I decided to make myself really depressed and run a spreadsheet on it.
    • While there is a fair bit of guesswork and assumption involved, parties reckon they can narrow down who voted for them and who didn't.
    • But this is only guesswork and it is hoped that an expert from one of the universities might be enlisted to help solve the problem.
    • Details of the deal were not disclosed by the principals or anyone else connected with it - a reason why there was so much guesswork in the press last week.
    • In practice this is largely going to be a matter of guesswork though so you can't really plan too deeply.
    • There's a huge amount of educated guesswork involved in these chronologies.
    • We can effectively only work with reported numbers, as the total number of cases is guesswork.
    • As a result, he said, intelligence was mainly ‘inferential’ - that means guesswork.
    • Plus, all drawings are full-size, so there is no guesswork involved.
    • In the meantime, a certain amount of guesswork appears inevitable.
    • The cards were completed laboriously and with a fair amount of guesswork.
    Synonyms
    guessing, conjecture, surmise, supposition, assumption, presumption, suspicion, speculation, hypothesizing, theorizing, prediction, expectation
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