单词：speculate
[经] 投机
v. 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
v. invest at a risk
考试类型：[六级/考研/托福/IELTS/GRE]
speculate的用法和样例：
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。
常见句型
- 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。
常用短语
- 思考关于… think about sthspeculate 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。
- 投机 buy or deal in goodsspeculate 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。
词汇搭配
- 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
经典引文
Some physicists have speculated that in nature all particles may be colorless.
出自：Scientific American
- 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
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