Estimation

(v. t.) The act of estimating.

(v. t.) An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities.

(v. t.) Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor.

(v. t.) Supposition; conjecture.

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• By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the English coin, it exchanges for about fifteen ounces, that is, for more silver than it is worth, according to the common estimation of Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You have deserved my trust, and, what is of far more importance in my estimation, you have deserved my father's trust, out of which mine grew. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• One King, holding the curse in light estimation, made the attempt, but was stricken sorely for his presumption. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In her estimation, to be mirthful was to be profane, to be cheerful was to be frivolous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In their own estimation they were aliens in the country which had given them birth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It agrees nearly with the estimation of the Northumberland book in 1512. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Had Rachel reverted to this unlucky accident, at the critical moment when my place in her estimation was again, and far more seriously, assailed? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In two short days he has made his way straight into my favourable estimation, and how he has worked the miracle is more than I can tell. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It does him the highest honour; it shews his proper estimation of the blessing of domestic happiness and pure attachment. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Mr. Franklin replied that a course of medicine, and a course of groping in the dark, meant, in his estimation, one and the same thing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I could see that I sank in his estimation as a dangerous man from that moment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Excuse my being a little out of temper; I'm degraded in my own estimation--I have let Rosanna Spearman puzzle me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He was well known as a philosopher, and his character was held in the highest estimation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It is a low feeling in their estimation, connected only with low ideas for them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In the household book of Henry, the fifth earl of Northumberland, drawn up in 1512 there are two different estimations of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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