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■ guess可以表示“猜测但不一定猜中”（第二类动词），但也可以表示“猜中”（第四类动词）。大体上，可以从它的搭配上加以区别： 1) 在下列情况下是“猜测但不一定猜中”： a) 祈使句。 - Guess who she brought with her!你猜猜她把谁给带来了！
- Guess what?你猜猜看（我要告诉你什么）？
间接的祈使句也有相同的情况。 - Ask the children to guess what's in each container by dipping their hands in.叫孩子们把手伸进每个容器里面沾一下，猜容器里面盛着什么。
b) 第一人称的一般现在时。 - I guess I must be going now.我想我该走了。
- I guess I got the news a day or so late.我想我收到这个消息晚了一两天。
c) 任何时态后接间接问句或以 that（可省略）引入的名词从句。 - They'd already guessed who was going to be appointed.他们已经推测谁会得到任命。
- She guessed that she was fifty yards from shore.她推测自己离岸五十码远。
d) 进行式。 - I suggest that you keep her guessing.我建议你最好让她摸不透。
e) guess 后面有介词 at 或 about。 - What went on in Townsend's mind at that point could only be guessed at.汤森德此时有什么心事，只能靠猜测。
- Stroeve tried to talk to me about the picture, but he was incoherent. I had to guess at what he meant.(Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, Chapter XXXIX)施特略夫尽量想把他见到的这幅画描述给我听，但是他说得前言不搭后语，许多意思都只能由我猜测。
- She likes to keep them guessing about her age.她喜欢让他们摸不透她的年龄。
2) 在下列情况下是“猜中”： a) 一般将来时或过去将来时（肯定或否定）。 - You'll never guess what he said.你永远也猜不出他那时说的是什么。
- He was twenty-six, but no one would ever guess. He looked nineteen.他已经二十六岁了，但是谁都猜不出来。他看起来像十九岁。
- He would immediately guess their true intent.他就会马上猜出他们的真正意图。
b) 现在、过去或将来完成时。 - Someone might have guessed our secret and passed it on.可能有人猜出了我们的秘密，传了出去。
- He should have guessed what would happen.会发生什么事，他本来应该猜得出来。
- You will no doubt have guessed the truth: that she was far less mad than she seemed.... (John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Chapter 9, p.64)不用说，读者也可以猜到实情：她表面上好象是疯了，实际上根本就没有疯…
c) 前面有 can (could) 或 happen to。 - I can guess what's going through your mind.你心里想些什么，我都能猜得出来。
- No one can guess the true reason.真正的原因，谁都猜不出来。
- Can you guess how old I am?你能猜得出我几岁吗？
- Most of the students happened to guess the right answer.大多数学生猜中了正确的答案。
d) 后面有名词宾语。 - guess a riddle 猜中一个谜（比较 guess at a riddle猜一个谜）
- I had guessed the identity of her lover.我猜出了她的情人是谁。
e) 过去时后面没有下文。 - How did you guess?你是怎样猜出来的？
f) 前面或后面有表示难易、正误等意义的词语。 - His age is hard to guess.他的年龄很难猜得出来。
- He guessed right about some things.他对某些事情是猜中了。
- She guessed wrong.她猜错了。
g) 一般过去时否定。 - But still he did not guess. Nor did he — but in this case, how could he?— guess what had happened to Sarah when she left him the previous afternoon. (John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Chapter 23, p.198) （刘宪之、蔺延梓译本是：“尽管如此，可他并不猜疑。同样，他也没有猜测前一天下午莎拉离开他后碰到了什么事。”看来有误。似应改为：“尽管如此，可他并没有猜出来。同样，他也没有猜出（在这件事情上，他又怎么可能猜得出来呢）前一天下午莎拉离开他后碰到了什么事。”
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