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怀疑 (懷疑)

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  • [huáiyí]
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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

怀疑 [huáiyí]
  1. 1. verb [认为是真] suspect
    怀疑她没说实话。
    I suspect that she's not telling the truth.
  2. 2. verb [认为不可能] doubt
    我对他是否会来表示怀疑
    I doubt he will come .

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

怀疑 [huáiyí]
  1. 1. doubt; suspect; disbelief; distrust; doubtful; question
    怀疑态度
    take a sceptical attitude
    怀疑他的动机
    suspect his motives
    受到怀疑
    come under suspicion
    消除怀疑
    dispel doubts; clear up suspicion
    引起怀疑
    raise doubts; arouse suspicion
  2. 2. noun suspicion
  3. 3. adjective sceptical

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

怀疑 [huáiyí]
  1. 1. 心存疑惑
    我丝毫不怀疑这件事的真实性。
  2. 2. 推测
    怀疑这是他干的。

Examples

不容怀疑
admit of no doubt
谁也不怀疑你的诚意。
No one doubts your sincerity.
对这一点没人怀疑
Nobody has any doubt about that.
消除怀疑
dispel doubts; clear up suspicion
怀疑他的动机
suspect his motives
怀疑她丈夫有外遇。
She suspected her husband of carrying on with some other woman.
值得怀疑
be open to doubt

Collocations

怀疑
to have doubted
叫人怀疑
to be doubtful
表示怀疑
to express suspicion
怀疑别人
to doubt other people
轻易怀疑
to be susceptible to doubt
怀疑的眼光
a suspicious gaze
怀疑地看着
to look with suspicion

Word Decomposition

怀
[huái]
+
[yí]

nciku Note

怀疑 vs. 疑心

怀疑 vs. 疑心
huáiyí vs. yíxīn

As verbs, both 怀疑 and 疑心 mean "to have doubt in a person or thing" and are interchangeable.
(1) 我从来没怀疑疑心)过这事是他干的。
(2) 我早就怀疑疑心)这事是他干的了。

怀疑 can be used in the passive voice, but 疑心 cannot.
(3) 他被怀疑是这件事的主谋。
(4) 光凭怀疑还不足以给人定罪。

(5) 你疑心也太重了吧。
(6) 从那以后,我就对他起了疑心

“怀疑”和“疑心”作为动词,都有对人对事不太相信的意思,可以互换使用。
“怀疑”可用于被动句中,而“疑心”不可以。
“疑心”可以是名词,而“怀疑”不是。

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