| 单词 | speculate |
| 释义 | speculate (spekjʊleɪt ) Word forms: speculates , speculating , speculated 1. verb 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. [VERB preposition] It would be unfair to speculate on the reasons for her resignation. [VERB preposition] The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head. [VERB that] The reader can speculate what will happen next. [VERB wh] Synonyms: conjecture, consider, wonder, guess speculation (spekjʊleɪʃən )Word forms: speculations variable noun The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister. I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics. Synonyms: gamble, risk, gambling, hazard Synonyms: theory, opinion, hypothesis, conjecture 2. verb 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, in order to speculate with rising land prices. [VERB preposition/adverb] The banks speculated in property whose value has now dropped. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: gamble, risk, venture, hazard Collocations: speculate wildly In early adulthood, we used to speculate wildly. Times, Sunday Times We will speculate wildly about which partners are doing more than just the rumba. Times, Sunday Times But in the meantime can we speculate wildly about what the contents of his raw, unedited manuscript may have been like? Times, Sunday Times Evolutionary psychologists are also apt to make observations and then to speculate wildly about potentially adaptive explanations. Times, Sunday Times The situation was embarrassing for the couple, as the country expected their engagement and contemporary newspapers speculated wildly on the affair. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 揣测 Japanese: 推測する |
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