speculate ['spekjuleit]
参考词典中speculate的常规释义：
基本释义
- vi. 深思,推测,投机
词形变化
- 时 态：spec·u·lat·ed, spec·u·lat·ing, spec·u·lates
参考例句
- The reader can speculate what will happen next.
读者可以推测接下来会发生什么事。 - John refused to speculate about the content of the letter.
约翰拒绝猜测信的内容。 - It's dangerous to speculate.
做投机买卖是很危险的。 - The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.
医生推测他死于癌症。 - To speculate in a philosophical manner.
以哲学家的方式推究
- The reader can speculate what will happen next.
英英解释
4个动词解释
- to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
[同] conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize
[例]- Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
- 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
[例]- We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal
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- reflect deeply on a subject
[同] contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over, chew over
[例]- 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
- invest at a risk
[同] job, speculate
[例]- 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
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