surmising
v. 臆測,推斷( surmise的現在分詞 ); 揣測; 猜想
If you surmise that something is true, you guess it from the available evidence, although you do not know for certain.
There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened...
幾乎毫無憑據,我們只能猜測發生了什麼。
He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets.
他推測自己已經發現了一條非法活動猖獗的街道。
If you say that a particular conclusion is surmise, you mean that it is a guess based on the available evidence and you do not know for certain that it is true.
It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting...
認為博斯在畫這幅畫時腦子裡想著布蘭特的詩,這僅僅是猜測而已。
His surmise proved correct.
他的猜測後來證明是正確的。