| 词汇 | speculate |
| 释义 | speculate verb[ I ] uk /ˈspek.jə.leɪt/ us /ˈspek.jə.leɪt/ speculateverb[I] (GUESS)C2 to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain: 猜测；推测，推断 I don't know why she did it - I'm just speculating.我不知道她为什么那么做——我只是猜测。 A spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the train crash.一位发言人拒绝就火车相撞事件的原因作出推测。 Journalists are speculating about whether interest rates will be cut.记者们在猜测是否会降息。 [ + that ]The newspapers have speculated that they will get married next year.报纸猜测他们明年会结婚。 to guess guessGuess who called yesterday? estimateThey estimate that the work will take at least ten weeks. divineMum had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly. surmiseFrom the expression on his face, she surmised that something bad had happened. conjectureIt would be reasonable to conjecture that lack of exercise contributed to his obesity. speculateA spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the plane crash. It's useless to speculate without more information.没有更多的信息，推断毫无意义。 Royal-watchers have once again been speculating on the health of the princess.对王室非常关注的人又在猜测公主的健康情况了。 Scientists have speculated about the possibility of parallel universes.科学家在思考平行世界存在的可能性。 Guessing, supposing and suspecting approximate as muchidiom call conjecture consider deem fall guess jump jump to conclusionsidiom mark mark someone down as something misjudge misjudgment pluck presuppose supposably surmise think of something unguessable speculateverb[I] (TRADE)to buy and sell in the hope that the value of what you buy will increase and that it can then be sold at a higher price in order to make a profit: 投机，做投机买卖 He made his money speculating on the London gold and silver markets.他在伦敦黄金市场和白银市场上做投机生意赚了钱。 The company has been speculating in property for years.这家公司做房地产投机生意已经有好几年了。 Investing money backer bet bet big on something/someoneidiom capitalize co-investor deposit of something discretionary divestiture divestment endow investor landbanker mature microfinance pay something in pension plan plough plough into something/someone pump speculator speculate | American Dictionaryspeculate verb[ I ] us/ˈspek·jəˌleɪt/ speculateverb[I] (GUESS)to form opinions about something without having the necessary information or facts; to make guesses: I’m just speculating about what happened. Officials refused to speculate on the cause of the crash. speculateverb[I] (TRADE)social studies to buy and sell with the hope that the value of what you buy will increase and that it can then be sold at a higher price in order to make a profit: He made his money speculating in the gold and silver markets. speculate | Business Englishspeculate verb[ I ] uk /ˈspekjəleɪt/us to guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain: speculate on/about sthJournalists are speculating about whether interest rates will be cut. A spokesperson declined to speculate on the date of the merger. speculate thatCurrency traders speculated that Japan's central bank might soon buy large amounts of dollars in the hope of preventing the yen from strengthening further FINANCE to buy something hoping that its value will increase and then sell at this higher price in order to make a profit: speculate on/in sthHe made his money speculating on the London gold and silver markets. The company speculates in property. Examples of speculatespeculate We speculated that marginal thiamine storage due to liver cirrhosis led to consumption and depletion of thiamine faster than had been expected. In this paper it is speculated that other aspects of the content of delusions are also of relevance in understanding emotional distress. However, only when results are based on adequately powered samples, is it worth speculating further about possible mechanisms. He speculated that electric technology and psychic activity would merge completely. In the final section the author speculates upon old age in the next century presenting his ' ideal ' and ' realistic ' scenarios. The authors speculated that the reason for this unusually high frequency may be a distortion of the regular -helix. The author speculates that slowing down input, thus making more of it available for processing, could push learners from lexically to more syntactically driven processing. He speculated that some of his friends whom he was going to introduce to me had similar salaries. Few have speculated about scribal intentions with respect to these apparently trivial variants. The full range of hairpin and hairpin packet interactions can only be speculated. I have earlier speculated that, as the host of the meeting, she would have personally overseen its planning and logistics. Besides the usual sorts of prefabricated excuses why this is so (so many composers, so little available broadcast time), one speculates about further reasons. They speculated that magnesium inhibited the calcium calmodulin complexes thereby interfering with oocyte protein kinase activity. Other possibilities for future adaptation of this work are suggested and ideas for other forms of electroacoustic adaptation are speculated upon. He speculates that the patients' doctors generally handle these requests without consulting the special committees. See all examples of speculate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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