「思う」「考える」のボキャブラリー 4 ― suspect

J→E basics

1.
You use suspect when you are stating something that you believe is probably true, in order to make it sound less strong or direct.

  • I suspect they were right.(彼らが正しいと思う)
  • Do women really share such stupid jokes? We suspect not. (女性が本当にそんな馬鹿げた冗談を言うでしょうか？私たちはそうは思いません）

★「おそらく正しいと考えていることを（婉曲的に）伝える」

2.
If you suspect that something dishonest or unpleasant has been done, you believe that it has probably been done. If you suspect someone of doing an action of this kind, you believe that they probably did it.

  • He suspected that the woman staying in the flat above was using heroin. (彼は上のアパートの女性がヘロインを使っているのではないかと疑った）

★恐らく不正や悪事が行われたのではないかと考える場合に使う。