英英释义：to make a judgment or guess about a situation, action, or person based on the information that you have

“gauge” 常作名词表示“测量仪器”，作为动词常表示“测量” “算出”。

不过，“gauge”也常被引申为“评估” “判断”的意思，常可以用来替换 evaluate, estimate, measure 等词。

比如我们有时候很难判断一个人的心情如何，就可以用到 gauge:

He is unable to gauge his girlfriend’s mood.

比如，我们认为判断“现象级英语”社群是否有价值，要看我们的会员们是否取得了进步：

The worth of Phenomenal English should be  gauged by the progress its members make.

《经济学人》在讨论中国对欧洲政治和经济的影响时就用到了 gauge：

For everyone’s sake, it matters that Europeans  gauge their welcome to China wisely.

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