speculate

英 ['spekjʊleɪt] 美['spɛkjə'let]

vi. 推测；投机；思索
vt. 推断

近义词 gamble venture risk chance

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英英释义

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"

同义词辨析

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。

考试真题

The researchers speculate that craft activities promote the development of nerve pathways in the brain that help to maintain cognitive health.

This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to speculate that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals' genetic development.

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".

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.

Naomi Pugh at Freed-Hardeman University speculated that professors would have to work harder to enliven their classes

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression.

A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world: after town of culture, who knows that will follow-village of culture?

实用场景例句

We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.: 我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。

It is useless to speculate why he did it.: 对他为什么这么做妄加猜测毫无用处。

We can speculate that the stone circles were used in some sort of pagan ceremony.: 我们可以推测，这些石头排成的圆圈是用于某种异教崇拜仪式的。

He likes to speculate on the stock market.: 他喜欢炒股。

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。

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。

Some speculate that it was the will of the Force.: 有人推测是原力的意志使然.

We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.: 我们有时振作起来,进行思索.

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

It is avoided to speculate on large, global theories that go beyond the facts.: 这个方法躲避产生大的全局性的超脱于观察依据的理论.

He would not speculate on when studies in larger animals and humans might get under way.: 对何时会进行大型动物试验以及人体试验,他表示尚不能做出预测.

It is interesting to speculate on some of the reasons for this kind of bad thinking.: 推测一下形成这类不良思维方式的一些原因是很有趣的.

Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.: 她还强迫自己接受利蒂霞·戴尔对农村的恰如其分的依恋感情.

Those who speculate are called speculators.: 做投机的人称投机户.

It's dangerous to speculate.: 做投机买卖是很危险的.

Then. quite naturally, he began to speculate whence it came.: 很自然地, 他开始想, 它们是哪儿来的呢?

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

It is too earlyand too little is known, to speculate on Bird's motives.: 目前我们所知甚少, 要猜测伯德的杀人动机还为时尚早.

A lifetime of obesity might hae different effects on longevity, they speculate.: 他们推测终生肥胖对于寿命具有不同的影响.

The investors earned last year and they will also speculate in 2008 for their greed.: 股民去年赚了今年肯定会再投机,因为人类的贪婪.

More diversity reduces amount you can speculate with.: 分布过散会减少你能用以投机的数量.

This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks.: 这是投机股票相当危险的一个月份.

The Wise of Tol Eressea thus speculate that Orcs are bred from ancient Elves.: 因此,托尔埃勒西尔的智者能推断出奥克斯是从远古的精灵腐化而来的.

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.

Most believe that she had killed herself, but others 41 speculate that she was murdered.: 大多数人相信她是自杀, 但也有人推测她遭到谋杀.

If you speculate too much about the past or the future you won't get anything done.: 如果你过多的游离于过去和未来的话,你什么都做不了.

Others might speculate that the genocide claimed 800,000 victims, or a million.: 有人猜测这次屠杀的受害者达80万人, 甚至1百万.

中文词源

speculate 推测，猜测，投机，炒股

来自拉丁语 speculari,看，观察，来自 specere,看，观察，词源同 spectate,aspect.引申诸相关词义。

助记提示

1. spec (special -- 特别的、特殊的) => 做投机生意需要特别的推测、思索。

双语例句

1. 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。

2. People speculate about virtuality systems, but we're already working on it.: 人们才开始构思虚拟系统的时候，我们已经进行开发了。

3. It's always hard to speculate about the future.: 未来一向很难预测。

4. 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。

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

英文词源

speculate (v.): 1590s, "view mentally, contemplate" (transitive), back-formation from speculation. Also formerly "view as from a watchtower" (1610s). Intransitive sense of "pursue truth by conjecture or thinking" is from 1670s. Meaning "to invest money upon risk for the sake of profit" is from 1785. Related: Speculated; speculating.

词态变化

第三人称单数: speculates;过去式: speculated;过去分词: speculated;现在分词: speculating;