speculate
- vt. 推测
- vi. 投机；深思
详细释义
- 投机
- 推测
- 思索
- 沉思
- 做投机买卖
- 推断
- 设想
- 思考
- 暗自思忖
- 冥思苦想
- 动脑筋
- 胡思乱想
- 分析
- 推究
- 合计
- 讨论
- 提出
- 想出
- 悬想到
- 认为
- 深思
- 猜测
- 好奇
- vt. & vi. 思索; 猜测,推测 think about or take about a matter without having the necessary fact; make guesses
- vi. 投机 gamble; venture
英英释义
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to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
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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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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"
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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"
双语例句
- 1. It is premature to speculate about the resumption of negotiations.
- 现在猜测谈判是否会重新开始还为时过早。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. People speculate about virtuality systems, but we're already working on it.
- 人们才开始构思虚拟系统的时候，我们已经进行开发了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. It's always hard to speculate about the future.
- 未来一向很难预测。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Well, at present we won't speculate on hypotheticals.
- 嗯，目前我们不想去推测那些假想的东西。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. We should speculate about the purpose of life.
- 我们应该想想人生的目的.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.
医生推测他死于癌症。 - Can you speculate how such damage might arise?
你能否想出这种伤害是怎样引起的? - He likes to speculate on the stock market.
他喜欢炒股。 - It's dangerous to speculate.
做投机买卖是很危险的。 - He did not speculate on who would get the prize.
他没有去猜测谁将得奖。 - He began to speculate about the future.
他开始思索未来。 - 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。
- 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。 - He speculated that he would succeed.
他推测他将成功。 - The police are speculating that this incident may be linked to a similar attack two weeks ago.
警方推测这次事件可能同两周前的类似的袭击有联系。
用法讲解
- speculate的基本意思是“思索”“猜测”,指考虑或谈论某事而前提不确定或不完整,只是凭空猜想或仅凭推理,因此其结论往往具有假设性或理论性,本词强调推理过程。
- speculate可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,常接that从句。
- think，deliberate，meditate，muse，reason，reflect，speculate
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- 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。
- speculate about (v.+prep.)
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思考关于… think about sth
speculate about sthWe 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.)
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投机 buy or deal in goods
speculate in sthHe 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。
- 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
- speculate about 关于…思索
- speculate as to 为…思索
- speculate for〔in〕 投机
- speculate on 关于…推测
相关词汇
- 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
