speculating

英 ['spekjuleɪt] 美 ['spekjuleɪt]

• vt. 推测
• vi. 投机；深思

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

speculate的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

详尽释义

v. (动词)

1. 投机
2. 推测
3. 思索
4. 沉思
5. 做投机买卖
6. 推断
7. 设想
8. 思考
9. 暗自思忖
10. 冥思苦想
11. 动脑筋
12. 胡思乱想
13. 分析
14. 推究
15. 合计
16. 讨论
17. 提出
18. 想出
19. 悬想到
20. 认为
21. 深思
22. 猜测
23. 好奇

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 思索; 猜测,推测 think about or take about a matter without having the necessary fact; make guesses
2. vi. 投机 gamble; venture

英英释义

Verb:

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"
   

speculate的用法和样例：

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.
   医生推测他死于癌症。
2. Can you speculate how 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 (vi.)

1. He likes to speculate on the stock market.
   他喜欢炒股。
2. It's dangerous to speculate.
   做投机买卖是很危险的。
3. He did not speculate on who would get the prize.
   他没有去猜测谁将得奖。
4. He began to speculate about the future.
   他开始思索未来。
5. She often speculated as 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。

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

speculate about (v.+prep.)

思考关于… think about sth
speculate about sth

We 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 sth

He 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。

词汇搭配

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

经典引文

• Some physicists have speculated that in nature all particles may be colorless.

  出自：Scientific American

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近反义词

【近义词】

• conjecture 推测
• guess 推测
• contemplate 注视
• consider 考虑
• gamble 赌博
• risk 危险
• venture 冒险(事业)
• hypothesize 假设
• reason 原因
• ponder 沉思
• wonder 惊奇
• cogitate 思考
• reflect on 考虑
• take risks 冒险
• hazard 危险
• take a chance 冒险
• meditate 沉思
• theorize 推理
• deliberate 深思熟虑的
• reflect 反映
• chance 可能性
• study 研究
• generalize 概括
• conceive 设想
• think 认为
• muse 沉思
• mull 思索
• think over 仔细考虑
• hypothecate 假定
• chew over 仔细考虑
• theorise 建立理论
• hypothesise 假设
• excogitate 想出
• job 工作
• ruminate 深思
• suppose 假设
• mull over 仔细考虑