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基本釋義

vt.
思索,猜測(cè),推測(cè)
vi.
投機(jī); 推測(cè); 思索

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.

我們大家都推測(cè)過她辭職的原因。

牛津詞典

It is useless to speculate why he did it.

對(duì)他為什么這么做妄加猜測(cè)毫無用處。

牛津詞典

We can speculate that the stone circles were used in some sort of pagan ceremony.

我們可以推測(cè),這些石頭排成的圓圈是用于某種異教崇拜儀式的。

牛津詞典

He likes to speculate on the stock market.

他喜歡炒股。

牛津詞典

Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead...

對(duì)該項(xiàng)目持批評(píng)態(tài)度的人在推測(cè)如果改作他用不知可以建多少所醫(yī)院。

It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide...

猜測(cè)黛比自殺的原因?qū)λ募胰藖碚f是不公平的。

Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices...

大農(nóng)場主正在不斷涌進(jìn)來,不是為了耕作,而是要利用不斷上漲的地價(jià)進(jìn)行投機(jī)。

The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.

各銀行貸出去太多高風(fēng)險(xiǎn)貸款,目前無法收回,他們還進(jìn)行地產(chǎn)投機(jī),而地產(chǎn)的價(jià)值目前已經(jīng)下跌了。

Some speculate that it was the will of the Force.

有人推測(cè)是原力的意志使然.

期刊摘選

We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.

我們有時(shí)振作起來,進(jìn)行思索.

期刊摘選

The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.

醫(yī)生推測(cè)他死于癌癥.

期刊摘選

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

這個(gè)方法躲避產(chǎn)生大的全局性的超脫于觀察依據(jù)的理論.

期刊摘選

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

對(duì)何時(shí)會(huì)進(jìn)行大型動(dòng)物試驗(yàn)以及人體試驗(yàn),他表示尚不能做出預(yù)測(cè).

期刊摘選

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

推測(cè)一下形成這類不良思維方式的一些原因是很有趣的.

辭典例句

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

她還強(qiáng)迫自己接受利蒂霞·戴爾對(duì)農(nóng)村的恰如其分的依戀感情.

辭典例句

Those who speculate are called speculators.

做投機(jī)的人稱投機(jī)戶.

期刊摘選

It's dangerous to speculate.

做投機(jī)買賣是很危險(xiǎn)的.

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

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

很自然地, 他開始想, 它們是哪兒來的呢?

期刊摘選

We should speculate about the purpose of life.

我們應(yīng)該想想人生的目的.

《簡明英漢詞典》

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

目前我們所知甚少, 要猜測(cè)伯德的殺人動(dòng)機(jī)還為時(shí)尚早.

期刊摘選

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

他們推測(cè)終生肥胖對(duì)于壽命具有不同的影響.

期刊摘選

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

股民去年賺了今年肯定會(huì)再投機(jī),因?yàn)槿祟惖呢澙?

期刊摘選

More diversity reduces amount you can speculate with.

分布過散會(huì)減少你能用以投機(jī)的數(shù)量.

期刊摘選

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

這是投機(jī)股票相當(dāng)危險(xiǎn)的一個(gè)月份.

期刊摘選

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

因此,托爾埃勒西爾的智者能推斷出奧克斯是從遠(yuǎn)古的精靈腐化而來的.

期刊摘選

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

我們不了解所有的情況, 妄加推測(cè)是沒有意義的.

《簡明英漢詞典》

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

大多數(shù)人相信她是自殺, 但也有人推測(cè)她遭到謀殺.

期刊摘選

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

如果你過多的游離于過去和未來的話,你什么都做不了.

期刊摘選

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

有人猜測(cè)這次屠殺的受害者達(dá)80萬人, 甚至1百萬.

期刊摘選

真題例句

The researchers speculate that craft activities promote the development of nerve pathways in the brain that help to maintain cognitive health.

2017年12月四級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to speculate that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals' genetic development.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

In an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, "you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldn't write at all".

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

Naomi Pugh at Freed-Hardeman University speculated that professors would have to work harder to enliven their classes

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression.

出自-2013年考研翻譯原文

A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world: after town of culture, who knows that will follow-village of culture?

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

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"

同義詞辨析

think, deliberate, meditate, muse, reason, reflect, speculate

這些動(dòng)詞均有"思考,判斷,思索"之意。

  • think: 一般用詞,指開動(dòng)腦筋形成看法或得出結(jié)論的腦力活動(dòng)。不著重結(jié)論是否正確,見解是否有用。
  • deliberate: 指緩慢、按部就班地作仔細(xì)而認(rèn)真的思考或判斷。
  • meditate: 語氣較強(qiáng),指認(rèn)真地長時(shí)間集中精力進(jìn)行思考。
  • muse: 通常指漫無目的地猜想。
  • reason: 指根據(jù)資料、證據(jù)或事實(shí)進(jìn)行推斷,作出結(jié)論或判斷的邏輯思維活動(dòng)。
  • reflect: 指回想或回顧,側(cè)重認(rèn)真而冷靜地反復(fù)地思考某個(gè)問題,尤指對(duì)已發(fā)生事情的思索。
  • speculate: 指推論過程,隱含在證據(jù)不足的基礎(chǔ)上作出推測(cè)或設(shè)想。

同義詞

vt.推測(cè),冒險(xiǎn)

riskgambleventurechance

vi.思索;推測(cè)

theorizeguessconjecture

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