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vt.推测⁷⁴vi.投机²⁵;深思¹原型speculate的现在分词过去分词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。as in.wondering
同义词 curiousguessing,inquiring,pondering,questioningspeculativeas in.conception
同义词 appreciation,conceit,concept,impression,interpretation,notion,perception,realizationapperception,apprehension,clue,cognition,comprehension,consideration,design,dreaming,explanation,exposition,fancy,image,inkling,intellection,meditation,musing,philosophizing,picture,plan,representation,speculation,thought,versioncogitating,communing,concentrating,considering,deliberating,envisaging,fancying,imagining,meditating,mental grasp
conceptionnoun understanding;idea
apperception,appreciation,apprehension,clue,cogitating,cognition,communing,comprehension,conceit,concentrating,concept,consideration,considering,deliberating,design,dreaming,envisaging,explanation,exposition,fancy,fancying,image,imagining,impression,inkling,intellection,interpretation,meditating,meditation,mental grasp,musing,notion,perception,philosophizing,picture,plan,realization,representation,speculation,thought,version
conceptionsnoun understanding;idea
apperceptions,appreciations,apprehensions,clues,cogitatings,cognitions,communings,comprehensions,conceits,concentratings,concepts,considerations,considerings,deliberatings,designs,dreamings,envisagings,explanations,expositions,fancies,fancies,images,imaginings,impressions,inklings,intellections,interpretations,meditatings,meditations,mental grasps,musings,notions,perceptions,philosophizings,pictures,plans,realizations,representations,speculatings,speculations,thoughts,versions
wonderingadjective inquisitive
curious,guessing,inquiring,pondering,questioning,speculating,speculative Caulfield stops short of speculating on a date when CDs might be phased out, but he does see similarities with the history of other media.
科非尔德没有推测 CD退市的准确时间，但是他确实看到了CD与其他已经隐没的媒介有着相似的经历。 yeeyan
John Clemens, though trained as a lawyer, tried to support his family by running a store and speculating in real estate.
约翰·克莱门斯尽管受过做律师的训练，可还是要靠开店铺和做房地产的投机买卖来养家糊口。 ebigear
After that first trade, I got to speculating on my own hook in the bucket shops.
第一笔交易之后，我开始自己在自己的投机商上挂钩猜测。 yeeyan
After months of speculating whether he would stay or go, Simon informed the television critics of America he was saying goodbye to Idol but not to FOX.
经过了几个月外界对他去留问题的猜测之后,西蒙告知美国的电视评论家他将不再留在这档节目,但仍将继续与福克斯合作。 joyen
Financial analysts are now speculating on a number of possible candidates to replace Strauss- Kahn, including French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.
金融分析人士也在推测一些可能取代施特劳斯-卡恩的人选，其中包括法国财政部长拉加德。 hxen
However, speculating as to why social media usage is on the rise goes beyond what this report aims to do.
而至于社会性媒体使用量增长的原因推测则不是这份报的目的所在。 yeeyan
I'm speculating, but it seems reasonable to me that what's causing this decline, or much of it, is the rise of the two-earner household.
我猜测，双职工家庭的日益增多导致了迁移率下降或者是大幅下降，但是对于我来说，这似乎是合乎情理的。 ecocn
If this sounds more like someone who may have bigger issues than just learning how to integrate technology successfully into their lives, you'd probably be rightbut of course, I'm just speculating.
如果这事儿听起来像是某人有比仅仅学习如何成功地将技术集成到生活中更重要的事，那你可能是对的当然，我只是猜测而已。 yeeyan
In law enforcement, a fingerprint examiner can issue only a positive or a negative identification, and is prohibited from speculating on probabilities.
在执法部门，指纹鉴定师只能报告指纹吻合或不吻合，推测和可能是被禁止的。 yeeyan
Mr. Volcker is telling the banks that they must choose between banking and speculating.
沃克尔先生正在要求银行，他们必须在投机和银行业中二选一。 yeeyan
President Bush and other leaders are facing calls to expand offshore drilling and to rein in hedge funds and other investors blamed for speculating on world energy markets.
布什总统和其他领导人正面临扩展海洋钻探和控制基金套牢以及其他投资者责备的世界能源市场的投机现象。 yeeyan
Since they are tradable instruments, they became bear- market warrants for speculating on deteriorating conditions in a company or country.
因为可以交易，它就变成了可以投机的，一种对一个公司或国家情况恶化的看跌凭单。 yeeyan
So he spit in contempt on his father's speculating.
因此他轻蔑的唾弃他父亲的投机行为。 ebigear
Some are speculating that the demoralised FDP will pull out of the coalition, presenting itself in a new election as the taxpayers’ champion in a battle against ever-larger bail-outs.
此外另一些人猜测，受挫的自由民主联盟将会退出联合政府，并在新一轮选举中以反对高额救援计划、支持纳税人的身份重新亮相。 ecocn
Their cash has primarily been used for short-term profit opportunities such as speculating in the capital markets for quick profits, leaving many small and medium sized businesses cash- strapped.
它们的资金主要用于获得短期利润的投资机会，比如在资本市场投机以快速获利，这造成很多中小企业资金紧张。 yeeyan
This did not stop investors from speculating about the health of Apple’s chief executive, who recently underwent a liver transplant.
然而这并不能阻止投资者们对这位总裁的健康的猜测。因为不久前他刚接受了肝移植手术。 ecocn
This is the basis for the unproductive activity of speculating on property prices by offering workers large mortgages to provide the illusions of wealth.
这是通过为工人编织财富梦想给他们提供大额贷款这样一种没有产出的投机房产价格行为的原理。 yeeyan |