Picture the feeling you get when something doesn't quite add up: you have no proof, nobody has told you anything, but a hunch has already formed and won't go away. Suspicion is that half-formed belief living in the gap where evidence should be. Point it at a person and it becomes distrust; point it at a situation and it becomes a bad feeling about what's coming.
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
suspicionnoun/səˈspɪʃ.ən/
- 1
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
- His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
- 2
The condition of being suspected.
- 3
Uncertainty, doubt.
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
- 4
A trace, or slight indication.
- a suspicion of a smile
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion[…]of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
- 5
The imagining of something without evidence.
suspicionverb/səˈspɪʃ.ən/
- 1
dialectalTo suspect; to have suspicions.
- “Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody would suspicion us that saw us.”
- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]
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