speculate

英 [ˈspekjuleɪt]

美 [ˈspekjuleɪt]

v.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机; 做投机买卖

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

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Collins.3 / BNC.6395 / COCA.4809

牛津词典

verb

• 推测；猜测；推断
  to form an opinion about sth without knowing all the details or facts
  1. We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.
     我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。
  2. It is useless to speculate why he did it.
     对他为什么这么做妄加猜测毫无用处。
  3. We can speculate that the stone circles were used in some sort of pagan ceremony.
     我们可以推测，这些石头排成的圆圈是用于某种异教崇拜仪式的。
• 投机；做投机买卖
  to buy goods, property, shares, etc., hoping to make a profit when you sell them, but with the risk of losing money
  1. He likes to speculate on the stock market.
     他喜欢炒股。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推测;猜测;猜想
  If youspeculateabout something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
  1. Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead...
     对该项目持批评态度的人在推测如果改作他用不知可以建多少所医院。
  2. It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide...
     猜测黛比自杀的原因对她的家人来说是不公平的。
  3. The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head...
     医生推测他死于头部受击引起的脑溢血。
  4. The reader can speculate what will happen next.
     读者可以推测下一步会发生什么事。
• VERB 投机;做投机买卖
  If someonespeculatesfinancially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit.
  1. Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices...
     大农场主正在不断涌进来，不是为了耕作，而是要利用不断上涨的地价进行投机。
  2. The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
     各银行贷出去太多高风险贷款，目前无法收回，他们还进行地产投机，而地产的价值目前已经下跌了。

英英释义

verb

• reflect deeply on a subject
  1. I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  2. philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  3. The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
  Synonym:chew overthink overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overruminate
• to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  1. Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
  Synonym:theorizetheoriseconjecturehypothesizehypothesisehypothecatesuppose
• 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
  1. We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal
• invest at a risk
  1. 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
  Synonym:job

双语例句

• A totally female world would probably be a better place to live, I speculate.
  我推测，一个完全的女性世界很可能是一个更好的居住地。
• The reader can speculate what will happen next.
  读者可以推测下一步会发生什么事。
• Regrettably they did not seriously speculate what was the definition of time and what was the essence of time.
  可惜的是他们的注意力是在物上，而并没有认真思考时间的定义和解释时间的本质。
• They speculate, however, that antioxidants present in chocolate may have a health benefit.
  然而，他们推测，巧克力中的抗氧化物可能对健康有益。
• At the moment all we can do is speculate about the future of the firm-nothing is definite.
  此时此刻我们所能做的不过是对公司的未来进行推测&没有什么东西是确定的。
• It is interesting to speculate on some of the reason 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。
• Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices
  大农场主正在不断涌进来，不是为了耕作，而是要利用不断上涨的地价进行投机。
• The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
  各银行贷出去太多高风险贷款，目前无法收回，他们还进行地产投机，而地产的价值目前已经下跌了。
• It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide
  猜测黛比自杀的原因对她的家人来说是不公平的。
• Well, you know, I won't speculate.
  嗯，你知道，我不会推测。