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speculate是什么意思

2024-02-10 21:43:17
speculate
美[spekjuleɪt]  英[spekjuleɪt]
vt.  推测
vi.  投机;深思
  过去式:speculated  过去分词:speculated  现在分词:speculating  第三人称单数:speculates
  近义词:conjecture,guess,contemplate,consider,gamble,risk,venture,hypothesize,reason,ponder,wonder,cogitate,reflecton,takerisks,hazard,takeachance,meditate,theorize,deliberate,reflect,chance,study,generalize,conceive,think,muse,mull,thinkover,hypothecate,chewover,theorise,hypothesise,excogitate,job,ruminate,suppose,mullover,

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

双解释义

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"

组词搭配

~+副词
  1. speculate casually碰巧地猜测
  2. speculate rashly轻率地推测
  3. speculate shrewdly精明地猜测
  4. speculate theoretically理论地猜测
~+介词
  1. speculate about关于…思索
  2. speculate as to为…思索
  3. speculate for〔in〕投机
  4. speculate on关于…推测

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. Its 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。

词语用法

v.(动词)
    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。