speculate的意思是：vt.推测；vi.投机；深思。speculate的例句是用作及物动词(vt.)The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.医生推测他死于癌症。speculate的读音是英['spekjuleɪt]；美['spekjuleɪt]。
一、详尽释义点此查看speculate的详细内容
二、英英释义
"Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
"We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"
"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"
"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"
三、词典解释
1.推测;猜测;猜想
If youspeculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
e.g. Critics of the projectspeculate 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。
e.g. It would be unfair to Debby's family tospeculate 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。
2.投机;做投机买卖
If someonespeculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit.
e.g. Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order tospeculate 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。
e.g. 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。
四、例句
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。
五、常用短语
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。
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。
六、经典引文
Some physicists have speculated that in nature all particles may be colorless.
出自：Scientific American七、词语用法
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