- 1v/ˈestɪmeɪtɪd/估計 / 估算
Made a careful guess about the size, value, cost, or number of something, without working it out exactly.
「estimated」是 estimate 的過去式／過去分詞，意思是「不精確計算，而是用判斷去『大概抓一個數字』」——大小、價值、花費、數量都可以。可以想成：不是拿尺去量、用算的，而是「憑經驗猜一個接近的數」。比 guess（純猜）更有根據，但比 calculate（精算）更寬鬆。常見句型：estimate (that)...、be estimated to be...、estimate something at + 數字。
示範例句 · Example
The teacher estimated that about thirty children would join the trip.
中文翻譯老師估計大約三十個孩子會參加這趟旅行。
常見搭配
estimate that
估計（某事大概如此）
to judge that something is probably true
Experts estimate that the bridge will take a year to build.
estimate something at something
把某物估計為（某數量）
to judge an amount to be a certain number
They estimated the damage at one million dollars.
a rough estimate
粗略的估計
a quick, not exact guess of an amount
At a rough estimate, the room holds fifty people.
a conservative estimate
保守的估計
a careful guess that is probably lower than the real number
At a conservative estimate, the trip will take five hours.
core核心畫面
Sizing something up by eye instead of measuring it exactly — looking at a crowd and saying 'about two thousand', weighing a job and saying 'roughly three days'. A careful, guess about how big, how many, how much — close enough to work with, but knowingly not exact.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'aestimare' — to value, to appraise, to set a price on. The modern 'make a reasoned guess at size or amount' grows straight from that act of putting a rough value on something.
源自拉丁文 aestimare，意思是「評價、估價、給某物定個價」。今天「對大小或數量做有根據的猜測」這個用法，正是從「給一樣東西估個大概價值」這個動作長出來的。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'estimate'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
estimatedadj/ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd/
- 1
That is an estimate.
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。