speculate
vt. 思索,猜测,推测
vi. 投机; 推测; 思索
If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
Critics of the project speculate 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。
It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate 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。
If someone speculates 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.
Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate 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。
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。
1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
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;
3. reflect deeply on a subject;
4. invest at a risk;
think, deliberate, meditate, muse, reason, reflect, speculate
这些动词均有"思考,判断,思索"之意。
Some speculate that it was the will of the Force.
有人推测是原力的意志使然.
We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.
我们有时振作起来,进行思索.
The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.
医生推测他死于癌症.
It is avoided to speculate on large, global theories that go beyond the facts.
这个方法躲避产生大的全局性的超脱于观察依据的理论.
He would not speculate on when studies in larger animals and humans might get under way.
对何时会进行大型动物试验以及人体试验,他表示尚不能做出预测.