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词汇 hunch
释义 hunch
noun[ C ]
uk /hʌntʃ/ us /hʌntʃ/
an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof: 直觉;预感
[ + that ]I had a hunch that you'd be here.直觉告诉我你会来这儿。
act on/follow a hunchSometimes you have to be prepared to act on/follow a hunch.有时候你得准备好按直觉行事。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Predicting things and intuition
augur
augury
bellwether
betcha
bode
herald
horizon scanning
inkling
instinct
intuit
premonition
premonitory
presage
prescience
prescient
telepathy
there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
unforeseeable
unintuitively
unreasoning

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Ideas, concepts and theories
hunch
verb[ I or T ]
uk /hʌntʃ/ us /hʌntʃ/
to lean forward with your shoulders raised or to bend your back and shoulders into a rounded shape: 弓(背),弯腰
We hunched round the fire to keep warm.我们弓着身子围在火边取暖。
Stand up straight and don't hunch your back.站直了,别弯着腰。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not holding the body upright
bent double
bowed
cower
crouch
double
double (someone) up/over
huddled
hunched
loll
lounge
lounge around (something)
scrunch
slouch
slouchy
slump
slumped
sprawl
stoop
stooped

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hunch | American Dictionary


hunch
noun[ C ]
us/hʌntʃ/

hunchnoun[C] (IDEA)


an idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof:
[ + that clause ]I had a hunch that you’d be here.
hunch
verb[ I/T ]
us/hʌntʃ/

hunchverb[I/T] (BEND)


to lean forward with your shoulders raised or to bend your back and shoulders into a rounded shape:
[ I ]We gathered in a circle and hunched over the fire to get warm.

Examples of hunch


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Playful observations of everyday life and discontinuities in logic allow gamblers to translate dreams and other visions and occurrences into ' hunches'.
To compound matters, the investigations to support our clinical hunches in young patients are not nearly as useful in later life, and have to be interpreted with caution.
Everybody was hunched up wondering whether it would be himself or somebody else.
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Many of us have very decided views on many questions of this kind, though they are mostly in the category of "hunches".
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We should also make the situation clear to allow people to pursue their hunches on the best way forward.
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We should not legislate on hunches or on selected statistics.
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Many people have ideas, prejudices, theories and hunches, but it is difficult to make up one's mind what should happen to delinquents.
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I think it wrong in this case to proceed by hunches.
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In the end perhaps we can only back our own hunches.
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Does it mean half the total value of the goods or half the number of hunches of bananas or whatever it may be?
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Almost certainly not by committees in the first instance because it depends upon trained people with hunches and crazy ideas.
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Dogma, hunches, reference back to one's own golden school-days, are not good guides to what is best for the citizens of tomorrow.
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We do not have to rely simply on our hunches to answer that question.
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They sat in the town halls or other municipal buildings; and foul hunched more bureaux were set up in the less important towns.
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We cannot build up an indictment against whole countries based simply on conjecture, suspicion, circumstantial evidence or hunches.
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