suspect: [14] Latin suspicere originally meant literally ‘look up at’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘up from under’ and specere ‘look at’, source of English spectator, spy, etc). It evolved metaphorically along two lines: ‘look up to, admire’, which has since died out, and ‘look at secretly’, hence ‘look at distrustfully’, which has passed into English in the form of its past participial stem suspect-. Suspicion [14] comes from the medieval Latin derivative suspectiō. => expect, inspect, spectator, spy, suspicion
suspect (adj.)
early 14c., "suspected of wrongdoing, under suspicion;" mid-14c., "regarded with mistrust, liable to arouse suspicion," from Old French suspect (14c.), from Latin suspectus "suspected, regarded with suspicion or mistrust," past participle of suspicere "look up at, look upward," figuratively "look up to, admire, respect;" also "look at secretly, look askance at," hence, figuratively, "mistrust, regard with suspicion," from assimilated form of sub "up to" (see sub-) + specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)). The notion behind the word is "look at secretly," hence, "look at distrustfully."
suspect (n.)
"a suspected person," 1590s, from suspect (adj.). Earlier as a noun it meant "a suspicion, mistrust" (late 14c.).
suspect (v.)
mid-15c. (implied in suspected), from suspect (adj.) and in part from Middle French suspecter or directly from Latin suspectare "to mistrust," frequentative of suspicere. Related: Suspecting.
suspect 双语例句
1. Investigators say nearly $100,000 was wired into the suspect's bank accounts.
调查人员说有近10万美元汇入了嫌疑人的银行账户。
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2. Do women really share such stupid jokes? We suspect not.
女人们真的会觉得如此愚蠢的笑话好笑吗？我们想不会。
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3. I suspect he isn't altogether unhappy about my absence.
我猜想他对我的缺席并没有感到很不高兴。
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4. She has been acclaimed for the TV drama "Prime Suspect"
她凭借电视剧《头号嫌疑犯》而受到好评。
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5. She did not suspect that his interest was just a passing fancy.