YM: DONNY, 你知道么?我要去參加“價格猜猜猜”節目啦!

DONNY: “價格猜猜猜”?! I know that show! You guess the price of a product, and if you get it right, you take the product home. Right?

YM: 沒錯!我直覺一向很準，我去一定會贏! 對了，直覺用美語怎么說啊?

DONNY: You can say hunch. h-u-n-c-h, hunch。

YM: 那“我直覺一向很準”，就是"My hunch is always right." 對嗎?

DONNY: That’s correct. Or you can use the phrase "gut feeling". It also means hunch。

YM: Gut feeling? Gut 腸子，Gut feeling腸子的感覺，就是直覺嘍!

DONNY: 沒錯! For example, I have a gut feeling that I’m gonna fail my mid-term exam。

YM: Haha, but I have a hunch that you’re gonna pass!

DONNY: Then I hope your hunch is right! 對了，于苗，Before you go on the show, we should practice. How much do you think my glasses cost?

YM: 啊?你的眼鏡啊....。.你冷不妨叫我猜，我還真有些緊張。

DONNY: Don’t worry. Take a wild guess!

YM: 什么叫 wild guess? 狂野的猜測?

DONNY: A wild guess means you have little evidence to support your guess。

YM: 哦，take a wild guess 就是隨便瞎猜! 那可不行，瞎猜贏不了比賽! 我的猜測一定要有根據，靠點譜兒，那又該怎么說呢?

DONNY: That would be an educated guess. "Educated" is spelled e-d-u-c-a-t-e-d。

YM: educate 是教育，an educated guess 就是根據經驗、常識作出的猜測。

DONNY: That’s Right!

YM: Hmm, well, I am guessing your glasses are worth 25 dollars!

DONNY: Wow... Yumiao, you’re really good at this! The correct answer is 26 dollars!

YM: Yeah! I won! I won!

DONNY: 別激動了! Tell me what you’ve learned today!

YM: 第一，直覺叫 hunch 或 gut feeling;

第二，瞎猜叫 take a wild guess;

第三，有根據的推測是 an educated guess!

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