speculate

释义

vt.思索，猜测，推测vi.投机; 推测; 思索

词态变化

第三人称单数 :   speculates ; 过去式 :   speculated ; 过去分词 :   speculated ; 现在分词 :   speculating ;

实用场景例句

Investors speculate on how many hospitals the project's budget could fund if allocated differently...

投资者推测如果项目预算分配不同，可以资助多少所医院...

金山词霸

It's unfair to Debby's family to speculate about the reasons behind her suicide...

猜测黛比自杀背后的原因对她的家人来说是不公平的。

金山词霸

Big investors are entering the market, not to produce, but to speculate on the soaring land values...

大投资者正在进入市场，不是为了生产，而是要投机于飙升的地价。

金山词霸

Financial institutions issued an abundance of currently irrecoverable high-risk loans and simultaneously speculated on real estate properties whose market value had plummeted dramatically.

金融机构发放了大量当前无法收回的高风险贷款，同时投机于市场价值急剧暴跌的房地产。

金山词霸

He prefers to speculate on real estate investments.

他喜欢炒房。

金山词霸

Some speculate that it was the will of the Force.

有人推测是原力的意志使然.

期刊摘选

We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.

我们有时振作起来,进行思索.

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The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.

医生推测他死于癌症.

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It is avoided to speculate on large, global theories that go beyond the facts.

这个方法躲避产生大的全局性的超脱于观察依据的理论.

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He would not speculate on when studies in larger animals and humans might get under way.

对何时会进行大型动物试验以及人体试验,他表示尚不能做出预测.

期刊摘选

It is interesting to speculate on some of the reasons for this kind of bad thinking.

推测一下形成这类不良思维方式的一些原因是很有趣的.

辞典例句

Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.

她还强迫自己接受利蒂霞·戴尔对农村的恰如其分的依恋感情.

辞典例句

Those who speculate are called speculators.

做投机的人称投机户.

期刊摘选

It's dangerous to speculate.

做投机买卖是很危险的.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Then. quite naturally, he began to speculate whence it came.

很自然地, 他开始想, 它们是哪儿来的呢?

期刊摘选

We should speculate about the purpose of life.

我们应该想想人生的目的.

《简明英汉词典》

It is too earlyand too little is known, to speculate on Bird's motives.

目前我们所知甚少, 要猜测伯德的杀人动机还为时尚早.

期刊摘选

A lifetime of obesity might hae different effects on longevity, they speculate.

他们推测终生肥胖对于寿命具有不同的影响.

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The investors earned last year and they will also speculate in 2008 for their greed.

股民去年赚了今年肯定会再投机,因为人类的贪婪.

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More diversity reduces amount you can speculate with.

分布过散会减少你能用以投机的数量.

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This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks.

这是投机股票相当危险的一个月份.

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The Wise of Tol Eressea thus speculate that Orcs are bred from ancient Elves.

因此,托尔埃勒西尔的智者能推断出奥克斯是从远古的精灵腐化而来的.

期刊摘选

We don't know all the circumstances, so it would be pointless to speculate.

我们不了解所有的情况, 妄加推测是没有意义的.

《简明英汉词典》

Most believe that she had killed herself, but others 41 speculate that she was murdered.

大多数人相信她是自杀, 但也有人推测她遭到谋杀.

期刊摘选

If you speculate too much about the past or the future you won't get anything done.

如果你过多的游离于过去和未来的话,你什么都做不了.

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真题例句

The researchers speculate that craft activities promote the development of nerve pathways in the brain that help to maintain cognitive health.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to speculate that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals' genetic development.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

In an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, "you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldn't write at all".

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Naomi Pugh at Freed-Hardeman University speculated that professors would have to work harder to enliven their classes

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression.

出自-2013年考研翻译原文

A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world: after town of culture, who knows that will follow-village of culture?

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Verb

1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;

"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

2. talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion;

"We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"

3. reflect deeply on a subject;

"I mulled over the events of the afternoon"

"philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"

"The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

4. invest at a risk;

"I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating"