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vt.推测⁷⁴vi.投机²⁵;深思¹原型speculate的过去式和过去分词过去分词speculated现在分词speculating三单speculates
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:
to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps 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 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 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 think，deliberate，meditate，muse，reason，reflect，speculate这些动词均有“思考、判断、思索”之意。 think一般用词，指开动脑筋形成看法或得出结论的脑力活动。不着重结论是否正确，见解是否有用。 deliberate指缓慢、按部就班地作仔细而认真的思考或判断。 meditate语气较强，指认真地长时间集中精力进行思考。 muse通常指漫无目的地猜想。 reason指根据资料、证据或事实进行推断，作出结论或判断的逻辑思维活动。 reflect指回想或回顾，侧重认真而冷静地反复地思考某个问题，尤指对已发生事情的思索。 speculate指推论过程，隐含在证据不足的基础上作出推测或设想。
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
用作动词v.
speculate about v.+prep.
思考关于… think about sth speculate about sthWe 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。
speculate in v.+prep.
投机 buy or deal in goods speculate in sthHe made a fortune speculating in tin shares, and lost almost all of it in cocoa futures.他做锡股的投机生意发了财,在做可可的期货交易时几乎又赔了个精光。近义词 job工作risk危险muse沉思mull思索guess推测study研究think认为gamble赌博reason原因ponder沉思wonder惊奇hazard危险reflect反映suppose假设consider考虑cogitate思考meditate沉思theorize推理chance可能性conceive设想ruminate深思conjecture推测reflect on考虑take risks冒险generalize概括excogitate想出contemplate注视hypothesize假设hypothecate假定hypothesise假设theorise建立理论venture冒险事业take a chance冒险chew over仔细考虑mull over仔细考虑think over仔细考虑deliberate深思熟虑的
用作动词v.
用作不及物动词
S+～+AWe 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。
用作及物动词
S+～+that-clauseHe speculated that he would succeed.他推测他将成功。
The police are speculating that this incident may be linked to a similar attack two weeks ago.警方推测这次事件可能同两周前的类似的袭击有联系。
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。
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用作及物动词The doctorsspeculatethat he died of cancer.医生推测他死于癌症。
Can youspeculatehow such damage might arise?你能否想出这种伤害是怎样引起的?用作不及物动词He likes tospeculateon the stock market.他喜欢炒股。
It's dangerous tospeculate.做投机买卖是很危险的。
He did notspeculateon who would get the prize.他没有去猜测谁将得奖。
He began tospeculateabout the future.他开始思索未来。
She oftenspeculatedas to what sort of man she would marry.她常常在想将来自己会跟什麽样的人结婚。verb.think about deeply and theorize
同义词 contemplate,figure out,guess,hypothesize,read,reflect,ruminate,surmise,weigh,wonderbrainstorm,cerebrate,cogitate,conjecture,consider,deliberate,dope,excogitate,figure,guesstimate,meditate,muse,reason,review,scheme,study,suppose,suspectbeat one's brains,build castles in air,call it,call the turn,chew over,dope out,have a hunch,hazard a guess,head trip,kick around,pipe-dream,psych out,read between lines,run it up flagpole,size up
反义词 disregard,ignore,neglect,dismiss,forget,knowabstainverb.gamble, risk
同义词 play,plunge,dare,hazard,venturewildcat,make book,margin up,play the market,pour money into,spec,stick neck out,take a chance,take a flier,take a fling
反义词 neglect,abstain,ignore A similar thing may be occurring in severely overweight people, some experts speculatedWashington Post.
一些专家推测，同样的情况也许会发生在严重超重的人身上。 yeeyan
The Italian press has speculated for months that Clooney might be about to propose marriage to her.
意大利媒体近几个月来一直在猜测，克鲁尼可能马上将向她求婚。 www.chinadaily.com.cn
After nearly half an hour he gave in, leaving the room to consult with others, possibly, parents speculated, the school's Communist Party secretary, Su Guohua.
经过近一个半小时，他让步了，离开房间去找他人商谈，家长猜测，可能去找学校的党委书记苏国华音。 yeeyan
British coastguards speculated later that the routine communication from the Arctic Sea could have been made either by the hijackers or a crew member speaking under duress.
英国海岸护卫队后来猜测，那次来自“北冰洋”号的常规通讯可能来自劫匪，或者是船员在胁迫下完成的。 yeeyan
Finance minister Naoto Kan, a man some have speculated might become the next prime minister, said he has supported Hatoyama's leadership and “ that has not changed”.
财务大臣菅直人表示支持鸠山由纪夫的领导，“这一点没有改变。”有人猜测菅直人可能成为下一任首相。 yeeyan
He speculated that the rise of agriculture had led to human encroachment on wild forests, giving the chimp version of the bug, P. reichenowi, the chance to find a new host.
利文斯通推测，应该是在原始农业兴起、人类祖先慢慢侵入原始森林的时候，生长在黑猩猩身上的亚种疟原虫伺机寻得了新的宿主。 ecocn
In“The Origin of Species, ” Darwin speculated on how natural selection could turn a land mammal into a whale.
在《物种起源》中，达尔文猜测了自然选择使陆地哺乳动物进化成鲸鱼的可能过程。 yeeyan
Many researchers have speculated that we tend to go for members of the opposite sex who remind us of our parents. Some have even found that we tend to be attracted to those who remind us of ourselves.
许多研究者都推测，我们更倾向于那些使我们联想到自己父母的异性，一些人还发现我们也更容易被那些使我们联想到自己的人所吸引。 yeeyan
On the fringes of Bury, the Victorian terraces give way to the sort of new estate in which, Bagehot speculated, “ Motorway man” might lurk.
在伯里的边缘地带，维多利亚梯田让位于房地产业。巴杰特曾经推测“高速公路男“可能就潜伏在该地。 ecocn
Other analysts suggest the cost reductions may occur in the next few weeks and could also include more targeted cutbacks and attrition, rather than the big number of layoffs that some have speculated.
其他分析师暗示降低成本可能会发生在未来几周内，可能还包括目标更明确的裁员和自然减员，而不是象一些人猜测的那样大量的裁员。 yeeyan
Perhaps the Achuar do have shame- related dreams but are reluctant to share them with outsiders, they speculated.
他们猜测，也许阿丘阿尔人也的确有出现过与“羞耻”有关的梦境，只是他们不愿意与告诉外人。 yeeyan
Researchers have speculated that self-injury might prime people for suicide in that they are able to overcome the fear and pain that comes from hurting themselves.
研究人员推测，人们的自残行为可能帮助他们克服伤害自己的恐惧和痛苦从而为自杀做好准备。 yeezhe
Some bloggers have also speculated that the robot could have military purposes.
有些博客还推测说这种机器人有可能用于军事目的。 toysdaily
Some experts speculated, indeed, that ETA had no peace plan.
确实，一些专家推测，埃塔根本没有和平计划。 ecocn
Some people have speculated that Elin somehow hurt or attacked me on Thanksgiving night.
有些人猜测说艾琳在感恩节的那个晚上伤害和攻击了我。 putclub
Stocks rallied yesterday as higher copper and oil prices boosted commodity producers and investors speculated Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will announce plans to stimulate the economy.
美股昨天上扬，铜金属和原油价格走高推动大宗商品制造企业股价上涨，投资者猜测美联储主席伯南克将宣布经济刺激计划。 yeeyan
This will allow her to bypass what some have speculated would be a risky Senate nomination process.
这将使沃伦绕开参议院的提名程序，有人士推测这将会是一个冒险之举。 yeeyan |