| 词组 | estimate |
| 释义 | estimate 1. When the verb estimate is used with a preposition, it is usually at: • ... German populations estimated at between 10 and 15 million —Vera Micheles Dean, The Four Cornerstones of Peace, 1946 See also about 3. There is also evidence in our files for the use of as, by, for, and from: • ... half a dozen ears of dried corn which Chuck estimated as being over seven hundred years old — Boy's Life, February 1953 • The child is sexless, the adult estimates his virility by his sexual activities —Ruth Benedict, in Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture, ed. Clyde Kluckhohn & Henry A. Murray, 1948 • ... the almost three billion pounds of candy estimated for 1948 —Collier's Year Book, 1949 • Their attainments in their studies will be estimated from their school records —1952 Catalogue of Phillips Academy, Autumn 1951 2. The noun estimate is often used with of: • ... it involved making an estimate of a man's character —C. S. Forester, The African Queen, 1935 |
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