opine UK [əʊ'paɪn] US [oʊ-] formal verb transitive ■to state something as an opinion 认为;发表意见说•[+ speech] Power grows from the barrel of a gun, opined Mao Tse-tung.毛泽东说: 枪杆子里面出政权。 •[+ that] Ernest Rutherford opined that his work on radioactive substances would be of little or no practical use.欧内斯特‧卢瑟福认为,他对放射性物质的研究工作没有多少或者没有实际用处。 |