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猜想

cāi xiǎng

HSK 7–9

Meaning

  • to guess; to conjecture; to suppose
  • (math.) hypothesis

Definition

基于不充分的证据或直觉进行的推测或假设。

A conjecture or assumption based on insufficient evidence or intuition.

Usage

常用于表示对未知或不确定的事情进行推测，可作动词或名词。

Often used to express speculation about unknown or uncertain things, can be used as a verb or noun.

Examples

  • 1 我猜想他今天不会来了，因为外面下大雨了。 (I guess he won't come today because it's raining heavily outside.)
  • 2 科学上有很多未解之谜，需要我们先提出猜想，再去验证。 (In science, there are many unsolved mysteries; we need to first propose conjectures and then verify them.)
  • 3 老师的猜想是，这个实验可能会失败。 (The teacher's conjecture is that this experiment might fail.)
  • 4 她猜想这封信可能是谁写的。 (She guessed who might have written this letter.)
  • 5 在数学领域，哥德巴赫猜想是一个著名的未解决问题。 (In the field of mathematics, Goldbach's conjecture is a famous unsolved problem.)

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