speculate

speculate音标

英 [ˈspekjuleɪt]

美 [ˈspɛkjəˌlet]

speculate基本释义

vt.推测

vi.投机；深思

speculate用法及例句

v.(动词)

投机

推测

思索

沉思

做投机买卖

推断

设想

思考

暗自思忖

冥思苦想

动脑筋

胡思乱想

分析

推究

合计

讨论

提出

想出

悬想到

认为

深思

猜测

好奇

v.(动词)

vt. & vi. 思索; 猜测,推测 think about or take about a matter without having the necessary fact; make guesses

vi. 投机 gamble; venture

verb

1. reflect deeply on a subject

e.g. I mulled over the events of the afternoonphilosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of yearsThe scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

Synonym: chew overthink overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overruminate

2. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

e.g. Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

Synonym: theorizetheoriseconjecturehypothesizehypothesisehypothecatesuppose

3. 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

e.g. We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal

4. invest at a risk

e.g. 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

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

e.g. 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。e.g. 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。

speculationThe 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. 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.

e.g. 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。e.g. 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。

1. 推测：他们好像促进了艺术的发展或者从出土的艺术品上可以推测(speculate)他们的情况,这里不太确定. 但关于他们的具体情况并没有文字记载. 2,关于化学元素周期表的发展: 门捷列夫和另一个M打头的人,先是发现相似性,

2. 猜测：批评者猜测(speculate),当地官员可能害怕,对问题的公开(publicity)可能会给奥运会蒙上灰影(tarnish). 所以等到上周,中央*府才对此展开有力的(vigorous)回应. 自此,当*宣布了在全国范围内召回相关产品,逮捕了一些涉案嫌疑人,

常用例句

词汇搭配

用作动词(v.)

思考关于… think about sthspeculate about sth

We should speculate about the purpose of life.

我们应该想想人生的目的。

It was a quiet evening and Tom was speculating about the origin of the universe.

静悄悄的夜晚,汤姆在思索着宇宙的起源。

用作动词(v.)

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。

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

speculate casually碰巧地猜测

speculate rashly轻率地推测

speculate shrewdly精明地猜测

speculate theoretically理论地猜测

～+介词

speculate about关于…思索

speculate as to为…思索

speculate for〔in〕投机

speculate on关于…推测

Some physicists have speculated that in nature all particles may be colorless.

出自：Scientific American

词语用法

v.(动词)

speculate的基本意思是“思索”“猜测”,指考虑或谈论某事而前提不确定或不完整,只是凭空猜想或仅凭推理,因此其结论往往具有假设性或理论性,本词强调推理过程。

speculate可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,常接that从句。

近义词

临近词

muse沉思

contemplate注视

suppose假设

take a chance冒险

reflect on考虑

venture冒险(事业)

take risks冒险

hazard危险

mull over仔细考虑

conceive设想

generalize概括

hypothecate假定

reflect反映

risk危险

chew over仔细考虑

guess推测

ruminate深思

cogitate思考

mull思索

hypothesise假设

conjecture推测

think认为

reason原因

excogitate想出

hypothesize假设

theorise建立理论

chance可能性

wonder惊奇

job工作

consider考虑

theorize推理

deliberate深思熟虑的

gamble赌博

study研究

think over仔细考虑

meditate沉思

ponder沉思

speculate about

Speculate in stocks

speculate risk

speculate logic

speculate on a fall

speculate on

speculate in

speculate on a rise

Speculate in coffee

spectrum

speculate for a rise

speculation

相关列句

Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead.(该项目的批评者们则猜想这相当于可以建多少家医院。)

The researchers speculate that craft activities promote the development of nerve pathways in the brain that help to maintain cognitive health.(研究人员推测，手工活动促进了大脑中有助于保持认知健康的神经通路的发展。)

I mean it's interesting to speculate.(我的意思是，这是很有趣的推测。)

I've never seen one, so I can't speculate.(我从来没有见过这种平台，因此可能猜测的并不对。)

“People are beginning to speculate, ” he says.(他说：“人们会禁不住开始猜测。)

It's tempting to speculate about what might have happened.(大家不禁猜测，到底发生了什么事。)

He has bought himself time by refusing to speculate publicly on the cause of the blast.(他拒绝公开推测爆炸原因，为自己赢得了时间。)

We'll never really know of course, though it's interesting to speculate.(当然，我们永远也不会真正了解，尽管推测起来很有趣。)

We speculate on the markets.(我们对市场进行展望。)

The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.(医生推测他死于癌症。)