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speculate

英 /ˈspekjuleɪt/美 /ˈspekjuleɪt/
  • v.
    猜测，推测；投机
第三人称单数speculates
现在分词speculating
过去式speculated
过去分词speculated
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词语例句

  1. 猜测，推测vt.&vi.

    六级四级

    • The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head.

      医生们猜测他死于头部撞击引起的脑溢血。

    • We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.

      我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。

    • 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，手工活动促进了大脑中有助于保持认知健康的神经通路的发展。

  2. 投机vi

    • He likes to speculate on the stock market.

      他喜欢炒股。

  1. 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。
    来自《牛津词典》
  2. It's always hard to speculate about the future.
    推测未来总是很难的。
    来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  3. It's tempting to speculate about what might have happened.
    大家不禁猜测，到底发生了什么事。
    来自《牛津词典》

相关短语

  • speculate in foreign currency
    炒汇；倒汇
  • speculate hypothesize
    假设；推测
  • speculate on
    考虑；思索；猜测；推测
  • speculate-hypothesize
    推测；假设
  • speculate in
    投机；搞投机

词语扩展

vi.
guessventure
推测；投机；思索
vt.
understandconclude
推断
adj.
speculative投机的；推测的；思索性的
n.
speculation投机；推测；思索；投机买卖
speculator投机者；思索者
  • think/reason/muse/speculate/meditate/deliberate/reflect
    • think一般用词，指开动脑筋形成看法或得出结论的脑力活动。不着重结论是否正确，见解是否有用。
    • reason指根据资料、证据或事实进行推断，作出结论或判断的逻辑思维活动。
    • muse通常指漫无目的地猜想。
    • speculate指推论过程，隐含在证据不足的基础上作出推测或设想。
    • meditate语气较强，指认真地长时间集中精力进行思考。
    • deliberate指缓慢、按部就班地作仔细而认真的思考或判断。
    • reflect指回想或回顾，侧重认真而冷静地反复地思考某个问题，尤指对已发生事情的思索。

词义分布

推测
51.4%
猜测
26.4%
投机
16%
推断
4.2%
思索
1.9%

英英释义

  • v.to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  • v.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
  • v.reflect deeply on a subject
  • v.invest at a risk
  1. v.
    to make guesses about something
    推测；猜想
    • Everyone has been speculating about why she left.
      每个人都在猜测她为什么离开。

词源

  • speculate投机，做投机买卖；推测，推断
    来源于拉丁语中specere(看)派生的动词speculor, speculari, speculatus, -(观察,侦查)。 词根词缀： -specul-看 + -ate动词词尾
  • speculate推测，猜测，投机，炒股
    来自拉丁语 speculari,看，观察，来自 specere,看，观察，词源同 spectate,aspect.引申诸相关 词义。