英语词汇guess的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	guess
词源	guess. Think, suppose, calculate, reckon. “The northern word ‘guess’—imported from England, where it used to be common— is little used among southerners. They say ‘reckon’, ” wrote Mark Twain in an 1881 letter. Observed James Russell Lowell in The Biglow Papers (1867): “I have never seen any passage where guess was used as the Yankee uses it.”
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