speculate
- v.推测;猜测;投机;推断;做投机买卖
过去式： speculated 现在分词： speculating 过去分词： speculated 第三人称单数： speculates
specul 看 + -ate 做,造成
speculateverb
推测；猜测；推断
to form an opinion about sth without knowing all the details or facts
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。
投机；做投机买卖
to buy goods, property, shares, etc., hoping to make a profit when you sell them, but with the risk of losing money
He likes to speculate on the stock market.
他喜欢炒股。
speculate
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VERB 推测;猜测;猜想
If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.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。
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The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister...
总统已竭力否认了对经济部长前途的猜测。
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VERB 投机;做投机买卖
If someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit.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。
verb
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- 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
- Synonym: chew over think over meditate ponder excogitate contemplate muse reflect mull mull over ruminate
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- to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
- Synonym: theorize theorise conjecture hypothesize hypothesise hypothecate suppose
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- 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
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- 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
- Synonym: job
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This has led scientists to speculate on the existence of other galaxies .
这就使得科学家推测还有其他星系存在。
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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。
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He likes to speculate on the stock market .
他喜欢炒股。
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It 's tempting to speculate about what might have happened .
大家不禁猜测，到底发生了什么事。
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We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation .
我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。
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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。
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Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on the back burner
很多人推测美国将会暂时搁置和平进程。
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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。
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There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them
原因可能有很多，他不打算浪费时间对此妄加猜测。
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It 's always hard to speculate about the future
未来一向很难预测。
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The reader can speculate what will happen next .
读者可以推测下一步会发生什么事。
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Government sources are now openly speculating about a possible successor for Dr Lawrence
官方消息人士在公开推测谁有可能成为接任劳伦斯博士的人选。
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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。
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The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head
医生推测他死于头部受击引起的脑溢血。
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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。
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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。
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They are speculating on the imponderables of the future .
他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
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' We don 't know the answer to that . ' — ' Exactly — so shut up and stop speculating . '
“我们不知道那个问题的答案。”——“就是——那就闭嘴，别瞎猜。”
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" We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such precision using only the tools they had , " Dash writes .
达什写道:“我们只能猜测埃及人在仅用当时的工具的情况下进行铺线是怎样做到如此精确的。”
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The researchers speculate that craft activities promote the development of nerve pathways in the brain that help to maintain cognitive health .
研究人员推测，手艺活动促进了大脑神经通路的发展，有助于保持认知健康。
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As one of the most habitats predators , killer whales may not fit the speculate of a cultured creature .
作为栖息地最多的掠食者之一，虎鲸可能不符合养殖生物的推测。
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The researchers speculate the findings may give left-handed people greater verbal skills .
研究人员推测，这些发现可能证实左撇子拥有更强的语言能力。
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Feral cats in the region could be eating eggs and young iguanas , Gentile speculates .
这一区域的野猫可能正在吃鬣蜥蛋及其幼崽，金泰尔猜测。
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If a car company could not guarantee a safe driving experience and even speculates about a consumer 's motivation , its brand image could be tarnished in the end .
如果车企不能提供质量过硬的产品和良好的售后服务，不能保障消费者安全行驶，甚至恶意猜测维权者的动机，可能会砸了自己的招牌。
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I would rather not speculate at this time .
现在我宁可不做任何推测。
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Well , you know , I won 't speculate .
嗯，你知道，我不会推测。
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Consideration about a Great Deal of Foreign Capital Speculating in Beijing Real Estate Market
关于境外热钱投机北京房地产市场的思考
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I dont think we really want to speculate about that .
我们不想对此进行推测。
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Speculating and hedging are two major economic activities in the futures market .
投机与套期保值是期货市场上的两大重要经济活动。
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Speculating on Postgraduate Moral Culture under the Condition of the Socialist Market Economy
市场经济体制下研究生德育教育的环境和措施
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