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speculate
[英] [ˈspekjuleit] [美] [ˈspɛkjəˌlet] 生词本

vt.

vi.

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1. VERB 推测;猜测;猜想 If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen. 

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • 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。

speculation

  • The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister...

    总统已竭力否认了对经济部长前途的猜测。

  • I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics.

    我已经在《现代物理评论》上发表了自己对宇宙未来的猜测。

2. VERB 投机;做投机买卖 If someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit. 

  • 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。

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"
  • synonym： job

法律

  • 1.投机倒把
1. It's dangerous to speculate.
做投机买卖是很危险的。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2. 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。

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. We should speculate about the purpose of life.
我们应该想想人生的目的。

来自《简明英汉词典》