每日一词26/2018.10.22/gauge

1. 英英释义：to make a judgement or guess about a situation, action, or person based on the information that you have

2. 理解：

1）常作名词表示测量仪器；

2）作动词表示“测量”“算出”；

3）动词意引申出“评估”“判断”的意思，常用来替换evaluate, estimates, measure

3. 应用：

1）翻译：我们不能只用财富或者知名度来评估一个人成功与否。

Whether a person succeed or not should not only gauged by his wrath or publicity/popularity.

参考译文：Success should not be gauged merely by wealth or popularity.

2) 造句：

As a good speaker, he can always accurately gauge the mood of the audience.（作为一个好的演讲者，他总是能准确判断出听众的情绪如何）