speculate

[ˈspekjuleɪt]
  • 释义
  • vt.

    思索，猜测，推测;

  • vi.

    投机;推测;思索;

  • 词义辨析
  • think，deliberate，meditate，muse，reason，reflect，speculate
  • 这些动词均有“思考、判断、思索”之意。
    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。
    deliberate指缓慢、按部就班地作仔细而认真的思考或判断。
    meditate语气较强，指认真地长时间集中精力进行思考。
    muse通常指漫无目的地猜想。
    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。
    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。
    speculate指推论过程，隐含在证据不足的基础上作出推测或设想。
  • 双语例句
  • 1、

    We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.

    我们有时振作起来,进行思索.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 2、

    It's dangerous to speculate.

    做投机买卖是很危险的.

    ——《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • 3、

    The Wise of Tol Eressea thus speculate that Orcs are bred from ancient Elves.

    因此,托尔埃勒西尔的智者能推断出奥克斯是从远古的精灵腐化而来的.

    ——期刊摘选
  • 4、

    Others might speculate that the genocide claimed 800,000 victims, or a million.

    有人猜测这次屠杀的受害者达80万人, 甚至1百万.

    期刊摘选
  • 5、

    We don't know all the circumstances, so it would be pointless to speculate.

    我们不了解所有的情况, 妄加推测是没有意义的.

    《简明英汉词典》
  • 6、

    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。

    柯林斯例句
  • 7、

    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。

    柯林斯高阶英语词典
  • 8、

    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。

    柯林斯高阶英语词典
  • 9、

    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。

    柯林斯高阶英语词典
  • 10、

    Its occupation was to speculate on Laetitia Dale's modest enthusiasm for rural pleasures.

    她还强迫自己接受利蒂霞·戴尔对农村的恰如其分的依恋感情.

    辞典例句
  • 11、

    It is interesting to speculate on some of the reasons for this kind of bad thinking.

    推测一下形成这类不良思维方式的一些原因是很有趣的.

    辞典例句
  • 12、

    It is too earlyand too little is known, to speculate on Bird's motives.

    目前我们所知甚少, 要猜测伯德的杀人动机还为时尚早.

    互联网
  • 13、

    It is avoided to speculate on large, global theories that go beyond the facts.

    这个方法躲避产生大的全局性的超脱于观察依据的理论.

    互联网
  • 14、

    The investors earned last year and they will also speculate in 2008 for their greed.

    股民去年赚了今年肯定会再投机,因为人类的贪婪.

    互联网
  • 15、

    We should speculate about the purpose of life.

    我们应该想想人生的目的.

    《简明英汉词典》
  • 16、

    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。

    牛津词典
  • 17、

    The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.

    医生推测他死于癌症.

    期刊摘选
  • 18、

    She refused to speculate.

    她拒绝猜测。

    朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
  • 19、

    He would not speculate on when studies in larger animals and humans might get under way.

    对何时会进行大型动物试验以及人体试验,他表示尚不能做出预测.

    期刊摘选
  • 20、

    He likes to speculate on the stock market.

    他喜欢炒股。

    牛津词典
  • 21、

    This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks.

    这是投机股票相当危险的一个月份.

    期刊摘选
  • 22、

    A lifetime of obesity might hae different effects on longevity, they speculate.

    他们推测终生肥胖对于寿命具有不同的影响.

    期刊摘选
  • 23、

    We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.

    我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。

    牛津词典
  • 24、

    Those who speculate are called speculators.

    做投机的人称投机户.

    期刊摘选
  • 25、

    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。

    牛津词典
  • 26、

    Most believe that she had killed herself, but others 41 speculate that she was murdered.

    大多数人相信她是自杀, 但也有人推测她遭到谋杀.

    期刊摘选
  • 27、

    Some speculate that it was the will of the Force.

    有人推测是原力的意志使然.

    期刊摘选
  • 28、

    If you speculate too much about the past or the future you won't get anything done.

    如果你过多的游离于过去和未来的话,你什么都做不了.

    期刊摘选
  • 29、

    Then. quite naturally, he began to speculate whence it came.

    很自然地, 他开始想, 它们是哪儿来的呢?

    期刊摘选
  • 30、

    More diversity reduces amount you can speculate with.

    分布过散会减少你能用以投机的数量.

    期刊摘选
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