- 1vB2
/ˈestɪmeɪtɪd/
Made a careful guess about the size, value, cost, or number of something, without working it out exactly.
估計 / 估算
過去式 estimated過去分詞 estimated-ing estimating三單 estimates
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.
可以想成用眼睛把一件事「掂個大概」、而不是精確量出來：看著一群人說「大約兩千人」，估一份工作說「差不多三天」。是對大…更多收起
可以想成用眼睛把一件事「掂個大概」、而不是精確量出來：看著一群人說「大約兩千人」，估一份工作說「差不多三天」。是對大小、數量、價值或多寡所做的、有根據的小心猜測——拿來用夠近了，但自己清楚並不是精確值。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，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。
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：
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。