speculate的中文翻譯是什麼意思

speculate

US/ˈspekjuleɪt/
UK/ˈspekjuleɪt/

vt. 思索,猜測,推測

vi. 投機; 推測; 思索

speculate柯林斯釋義

VERB推測;猜測;猜想

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。

VERB投機;做投機買賣

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。

speculate英文釋義

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

speculate同義詞辨析

think, deliberate, meditate, muse, reason, reflect, speculate

這些動詞均有"思考,判斷,思索"之意。

  • think : 一般用詞,指開動腦筋形成看法或得出結論的腦力活動。不著重結論是否正確,見解是否有用。
  • deliberate : 指緩慢、按部就班地作仔細而認真的思考或判斷。
  • meditate : 語氣較強,指認真地長時間集中精力進行思考。
  • muse : 通常指漫無目的地猜想。
  • reason : 指根據資料、證據或事實進行推斷,作出結論或判斷的邏輯思維活動。
  • reflect : 指回想或回顧,側重認真而冷靜地反覆地思考某個問題,尤指對已發生事情的思索。
  • speculate : 指推論過程,隱含在證據不足的基礎上作出推測或設想。

speculate場景例句

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.

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