| 词汇 | speculating |
| 释义 | speculating present 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 speculatingspeculating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. However, only when results are based on adequately powered samples, is it worth speculating further about possible mechanisms. And the theoretician is left with the less-than-enviable task of speculating about why decision games with human subjects might generate too much cooperation. Historians are on firmer ground reconstructing and analyzing past events than they are speculating about what might have happened. However, we will not refrain from speculating over what may constitute an original contribution to urban planning theory. He acknowledges this problem in his conclusion without speculating on the potential implications of his well-suppor ted thesis. For any cautious scholar, this kind of speculating appears reckless. This research project is framed by the broad question of evaluating and speculating upon the role of representation in architecture. To put it in context with the rest, they conclude by speculating about the future of the conference and its role in the agents community. They conclude by speculating on the reasons for recitation being the main mode of classroom interaction, and how dialog ic discourse can be encouraged. As a first step, the quadratic relationship of the fluorescence intensity versus excitation power has to be demonstrated before speculating on the fluorescence signal. It is worth speculating that the presence of these wellestablished understandings could have a bearing upon the outcome of pressures towards social differentiation. The continuing absence of hard evidence on this matter has not prevented researchers from speculating. As with many attempts to explain, rather than just describe, occurrences in language, we risk speculating about the causes of processes. One is left speculating as to the representativeness of the case studies and the number of cases which actually involved a mufti^. However, some few cases may be so subtle that not only are they hard to find, but speculating on intentionality proves difficult. 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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