speculate
vt. 思索,猜測,推測
vi. 投機; 推測; 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...
對該專案持批評態度的人在推測如果改作他用不知可以建多少所醫院。
It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide...
猜測黛比自殺的原因對她的家人來說是不公平的。
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...
大農場主正在不斷湧進來,不是為了耕作,而是要利用不斷上漲的地價進行投機。
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險貸款,目前無法收回,他們還進行地產投機,而地產的價值目前已經下跌了。
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
這些動詞均有"思考,判斷,思索"之意。
Some speculate that it was the will of the Force.
有人推測是原力的意志使然.
We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.
我們有時振作起來,進行思索.
The doctors speculate that he died of cancer.
醫生推測他死於癌症.
It is avoided to speculate on large, global theories that go beyond the facts.
這個方法躲避產生大的全域性性的超脫於觀察依據的理論.
He would not speculate on when studies in larger animals and humans might get under way.
對何時會進行大型動物試驗以及人體試驗,他表示尚不能做出預測.