guesswork
推測
解説 Definition
guessworkは確実な知識や根拠がなく、推測や推量に頼る行為や方法を指します。論理的な分析よりも直感や勘に基づく判断を意味します。
Guesswork means forming an answer or making a decision without enough facts or certainty. It is used when someone is estimating or choosing based more on belief than on clear evidence.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
guess を知っていれば、guesswork は「推測で進めるやり方」とまとめて覚えやすいです。work はここで「仕事」より「作業・やり方」の感覚で、paperwork のような語と同じ。よく not guesswork, be based on guesswork の形で出て、「根拠より勘まかせ」の含みを持ちます。estimate よりラフで、hypothesis ほど考え抜いた感じもない語。guess が一回の推測なら、guesswork は推測頼みの進め方全体です。
This word is easy if you split it into `guess` + `work`. Here `work` means a way of working, like in `paperwork`, so `guesswork` is working by guessing. It often appears in contrasts such as `not guesswork`, which helps show its negative feeling.
例文
Without proper data, the project relied on pure guesswork for its estimates.
適切なデータがなければ、プロジェクトはその推定のための純粋な推測に頼っていた。
The diagnosis couldn't be based on guesswork; proper tests were needed.
診断は推測に基づくことはできなかった。適切なテストが必要でした。
He made his investment decision through educated guesswork rather than analysis.
彼は分析ではなく、教養ある推測を通じて投資決定を下した。
guesswork の類義語・関連語
guesswork の語源・成り立ち Etymology
guesswork は英語内で guess + work からできた語で、直訳すれば「当てずっぽうの作業」です。guess は中英語 gessen で、北欧語系・低地ゲルマン系の「推し量る」語に近く、十分な根拠なしに見当をつける感覚がそのまま残っています。関連語は guess, guesstimate.
Guesswork is a native English compound made from guess and work. Guess goes back to Middle English gessen and is related to Germanic words about judging or estimating. The whole word kept the literal idea of "work done by guessing," meaning reasoning without firm evidence; guesstimate is a later related word.
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