speculate
speculate
英[ˈspekjuleɪt]美[ˈspekjuleɪt]
vt.思索，猜测，推测；
vi.投机，推测，思索；
第三人称单数：speculates;
过去式：speculated;
过去分词：speculated;
现在分词：speculating;
例句
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。
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。
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。
ROWLAND Researchers speculate stress may be the cause of the grim statistic.罗兰德研究者推测压力可能是这一可怕统计结果的原因.
This might indicate a predisposition to elevated mood and mania, they speculate.他们推测这可能表示易于情绪高涨或躁狂的体质.
We should speculate about the purpose of life.我们应该想想人生的目的.
Well, at present we won't speculate on hypotheticals.嗯，目前我们不想去推测那些假想的东西。
It is premature to speculate about the resumption of negotiations.现在猜测谈判是否会重新开始还为时过早。
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。
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。
英语六级真题
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月阅读原文柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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.
例句
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。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.
例句
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。英汉词典释义
vt. & vi.
推断; 猜测, 推测(~ about/on sth)
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。He speculated that he would succeed.他推测他将成功。vi.
投机; 做投机买卖 (~ in/on sth)
Would he be what he is if he hadn't speculated on the stock of exchange?如果不搞证券投机买卖, 他会成为今天这个样子吗?英英词典释义
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"行业词典
法律： 投机倒把；
