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speculating

英['spekjuleɪt] 美['spekjuleɪt]
  • vt.推测vi.投机;深思
speculated speculated speculating speculates

详细释义

    v. (动词)
    1. 投机
    2. 推测
    3. 思索
    4. 沉思
    5. 做投机买卖
    6. 推断
    7. 设想
    8. 思考
    9. 暗自思忖
    10. 冥思苦想
    11. 动脑筋
    12. 胡思乱想
    13. 分析
    14. 推究
    15. 合计
    16. 讨论
    17. 提出
    18. 想出
    19. 悬想到
    20. 认为
    21. 深思
    22. 猜测
    23. 好奇
    v. (动词)
    1. vt. & vi. 思索; 猜测,推测 think about or take about a matter without having the necessary fact; make guesses
    2. vi. 投机 gamble; venture

英英释义

Verb:
  1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;

    "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"

  2. 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"

  3. 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"

  4. 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

    用作及物动词 (vt.)
    1. The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.
      医生推测他死于癌症。
    2. Can you speculate how such damage might arise?
      你能否想出这种伤害是怎样引起的?
    用作不及物动词 (vi.)
    1. He likes to speculate on the stock market.
      他喜欢炒股。
    2. It's dangerous to speculate.
      做投机买卖是很危险的。
    3. He did not speculate on who would get the prize.
      他没有去猜测谁将得奖。
    4. He began to speculate about the future.
      他开始思索未来。
    5. 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。
    用作动词 (v.)
    用作不及物动词 S+~(+A)
    1. 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。
    用作及物动词 S+~+that-clause
    1. He speculated that he would succeed.
      他推测他将成功。
    2. 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

v. (动词)
  1. 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。
  2. 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
  • 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。
  • 用作动词 (v.)
    speculate about (v.+prep.)
      思考关于… think about sth
      speculate about sth

      We 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.)
      投机 buy or deal in goods
      speculate in sth

      He 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。

    用作动词 (v.)
    ~+副词 ~+介词

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