Make an estimate
估计,作出估计
🧩 词语组成解析
make
[mek]
vt. 做，制造;生产，制定;使成为;使产生;
vi. 开始;尝试;行进;增大;
n. 制造;生产量;性格;形状，样式;
an
[æn]
art. 一（在元音字母前代替不定代词a）;一任一某一;一个;
estimate
['ɛstə,met]
n. 估计，预测;报价，预算书;评价，判断;
vt. 估计，估算;评价，评论;估量，估价;
estim价值+ate动词后缀 → 使之成为有价值的东西的过程 → 估计，估量
🗣️ 情景例句
You don't know up from down.
你黑白不分。
After forty years teaching English he thinks it's time to call it a day.
他教英语四十年，认为该退休了。
That's what we did in China in the old days, before thermoses were invented, said Wei Hua.
“那是我们中国从前未发明出热水瓶时的做法。”魏华说。