| 词汇 | speculated |
| 释义 | speculated past simple and past participle ofspeculate 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 conjecture consider deem draw 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 invest investor landbanker microfinance pay something in pension plan plough plough into something/someone pump speculator Examples of speculatedspeculated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Many have speculated as to the mysterious nature of a wall that is soundproof in one direction and opaque in the other. Many researchers have speculated as to why volunteering promotes positive outcomes. The human mind is perfectly computable, maybe even classically, as we have speculated. It could be speculated that this similarity is linked to the relatively low head position of stalking lions and of hyenas during scavenging on carrions. I speculated that some or all of them might have been inserted by a copy editor. 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. He speculated that electric technology and psychic activity would merge completely. It could be speculated that an additional factor has been the tendency of the insurance industry to pay lip-service to the principle of risk-based premiums. It could be speculated that penetration of the skin barrier makes the schistosomula less able to penetrate the placenta barrier. The authors speculated that the reason for this unusually high frequency may be a distortion of the regular -helix. 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. Some investigators have speculated that aggressive inflation of the septostomy balloon near a pulmonary venous orifice may cause pulmonary venous inflammation and ultimate obstruction. These investigators speculated that a critical mass of scar tissue provided the substrate for ventricular arrhythmias. 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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