Estimate

(noun.) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; 'many factors are involved in any estimate of human life'; 'in my estimation the boy is innocent'.

(noun.) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; 'an estimate of what it would cost'; 'a rough idea how long it would take'.

(noun.) the respect with which a person is held; 'they had a high estimation of his ability'.

(noun.) a statement indicating the likely cost of some job; 'he got an estimate from the car repair shop'.

(verb.) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); 'I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds'.

整理:斯特拉

• Harness-maker's estimate, so much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That's what I estimate in a man in your way of business. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The lowest estimate was made by Lord Kelvin in 1867. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is a tax upon the supposed profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Coach-maker's estimate, so much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Goldsmith's estimate, so much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I will not trust thee, Templar, said Rebecca; thou hast taught me better how to estimate the virtues of thine Order. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But though labour be the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities, it is not that by which their value is commonly estimated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He does this strange prospecting with an amount of gravity that can never be estimated or appreciated by a man who has not seen the operation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We estimated his strength at 70,000. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He estimated the consumption of fuel by a theoretically perfect air engine on Mr. Stirling's principle at 0·37 lbs. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Siemens had in operation a road about one thousand six hundred feet in length, on which it is estimated ninety-five thousand passengers were conveyed in seven weeks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was estimated that in 1770 there were fifteen thousand slaves in Britain, mostly brought over by their owners from the West Indies and Virginia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It must be clearly understood by the reader how sketchy and provisional all these time estimates are. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Even with this last serious draw-back, however, the lowest of the various estimates given was twenty thousand pounds. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But when the road was opened for use the excess in traffic beyond the estimates was much greater than the excess in cost had been. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The army of these crusaders, according to the lowest estimates, consisted of 90,000 infantry and 40,000 horsemen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hecker estimates the total as twenty-five million dead. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mulhall estimates that the steam horse power of railroads in the world amounted in 1896 to 40,420,000, of which the United States had more than one-third. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Estimates of the age of the Big Trees vary from the Christian Era through a period dating back beyond the coming of the Christian Saviour about 4,000 years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Estimating the quantity of water which flows through the trough each second. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The manner of estimating numbers in the two armies differs materially. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The sisters passed in silence through the stone gateway and up the steps, on the red carpet, a policeman estimating their progress. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The place of communication in personal doing supplies us with a criterion for estimating the value of informational material in school. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In estimating the importance and advantage of railway travelling, there must not be omitted its cheapness and comfort, compared with travelling by stage coach. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

校对:苏西