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Picture someone looking at a crowd and saying 'about two hundred people'. They did not count. They used what they could see — the size of the room, how tight people were standing — and landed on a number close enough to be useful. That move, judging a quantity from evidence instead of measuring it, is the whole word.
可以想成：一個人看著一群人說「大概兩百個吧」。他沒有數，他是用看得到的線索——場地多大、人站得多擠——推出一個「夠用…更多收起
可以想成：一個人看著一群人說「大概兩百個吧」。他沒有數，他是用看得到的線索——場地多大、人站得多擠——推出一個「夠用就好」的數字。estimate 就是這個動作：不去精算，而是根據手上的資訊判斷數量、大小或價錢。它跟隨口亂猜不一樣，中間有依據；也跟 calculate 不一樣，答案本來就不必剛剛好。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
estimatenoun詞源 1/ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/
- 1
A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
- “They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
- 2
A rough calculation or assessment of the value, size, or cost of something.
- 3
An upper limitation on some positive quantity.
- The desired norm estimate is now obtained from the identity... [referring to an earlier statement saying that a certain norm is less than or equal to a certain expression]
estimateverb詞源 2/ˈɛs.tɪˌmeɪt/
- 1
To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
- I estimate that I need 400 board feet of lumber to complete a job, and then order 350 because I do not want a surplus, or perhaps order 450 because I do not want to make any subsequent orders.
- Higher real prices for durables are estimated to have reduced their consumption per capita by 1.09% in 1930, […]
- 2
To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data.
- It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them.
- It is always very difficult to estimate the age in which you are living.
estimateadj詞源 3
- 1
obsoleterareestimated
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。