tounderstandaparticularsituationwrongly, often in a way that is moreshockingorexcitingthan thetruth:
听风就是雨
"Why in theworlddid shethinkyou werepregnant?" "I wassickacoupleoftimes, and Iguessshe just put two and two together and made five."“她究竟为什么会认为你怀孕了？”“我曾呕吐过一两次，我猜她就这样想了。”
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Concluding and deducing
analysis
deduce
deducible
deductive
diagnosis
draw
drawn
imputesomethingtosomeone
in the last/final analysisidiom
inconclusively
inductive
inductively
must
non-deductive
put
putsomethingdown tosomething
put two and two togetheridiom
reason
syllogism
syllogistic
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