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单词 speculate
释义
speculate
verb[I]
uk
/ˈspek.jə.leɪt/us
/ˈspek.jə.leɪt/

speculateverb[I](GUESS)

C2
toguesspossibleanswersto aquestionwhen you do not have enoughinformationto becertain:
猜测；推测，推断
I don'tknowwhy she did it - I'm just speculating.我不知道她为什么那么做——我只是猜测。
Aspokespersondeclinedto speculateonthecauseof thetraincrash.一位发言人拒绝就火车相撞事件的原因作出推测。
Journalists are speculatingaboutwhetherinterestrateswill becut.记者们在猜测是否会降息。
[+ that]Thenewspapershave speculatedthatthey will getmarriednextyear.报纸猜测他们明年会结婚。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to guess
  • guessGuess who called yesterday?
  • estimateThey estimate that the work will take at least ten weeks.
  • divineMum had divined my state of mind rather shrewdly.
  • surmiseFrom the expression on his face, she surmised that something bad had happened.
  • conjectureIt would be reasonable to conjecture that lack of exercise contributed to his obesity.
  • speculateA spokesperson declined to speculate on the cause of the plane crash.
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More examples
  • It'suselessto speculate without moreinformation.
  • Royal-watchers haveonceagain been speculating on thehealthof theprincess.
  • Scientists have speculated about thepossibilityofparalleluniverses.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
  • approximate
  • as muchidiom
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • deem
  • draw
  • fall
  • guess
  • hazard
  • hypothesize
  • jump
  • jump to conclusionsidiom
  • mark
  • marksomeonedown assomething
  • misjudge
  • presume
  • presumptive
  • presuppose
  • surmise
  • think ofsomething
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speculateverb[I](TRADE)

tobuyandsellin thehopethat thevalueof what youbuywillincreaseand that it can then besoldat ahigherpriceinorderto make aprofit:
投机，做投机买卖
He made hismoneyspeculatingonthe Londongoldandsilvermarkets.他在伦敦黄金市场和白银市场上做投机生意赚了钱。
Thecompanyhas been speculatinginpropertyforyears.这家公司做房地产投机生意已经有好几年了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Investing money
  • backer
  • bet
  • bet big onsomething/someoneidiom
  • capitalize
  • co-investor
  • discretionary
  • divestiture
  • divestment
  • endow
  • ethical
  • hedge fund
  • investor
  • mature
  • microfinance
  • paysomethingin
  • pension plan
  • plough
  • plough intosomething/someone
  • protect
  • pumpsomethingintosomething
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(Definition ofspeculatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

speculate| American Dictionary

speculate
verb[I]
us
/ˈspek·jəˌleɪt/

speculateverb[I](GUESS)

toformopinionsabout something without having thenecessaryinformationorfacts; to makeguesses:
I’m just speculating about whathappened.
Officialsrefusedto speculate on thecauseof thecrash.

speculateverb[I](TRADE)

social studies
tobuyandsellwith thehopethat thevalueof what youbuywillincreaseand that it can then besoldat ahigherpriceinorderto make aprofit:
He made hismoneyspeculating in thegoldandsilvermarkets.
(Definition ofspeculatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

speculate| Business English

speculate
verb[I]
uk
/ˈspekjəleɪt/us
toguesspossibleanswersto aquestionwhen you do not have enoughinformationto becertain:
speculate on/about sthJournalists are speculating about whetherinterestrateswill becut.
Aspokespersondeclinedto speculate on thedateof themerger.
speculate thatCurrencytradersspeculated that Japan'scentralbankmightsoonbuylargeamountsofdollarsin thehopeofpreventingtheyenfromstrengtheningfurther
FINANCE
tobuysomethinghopingthatitsvaluewillincreaseand thensellat thishigherpriceinorderto make aprofit:
speculate on/in sthHe made hismoneyspeculating on the Londongoldandsilvermarkets.
Thecompanyspeculates inproperty.
(Definition ofspeculatefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofspeculate

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In addressing ourselves to this process, we are not speculating.
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The next section outlines some of these processes and speculates how they may place children at risk.
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They speculated that firm growth beyond a very small size might require a discrete jump to a significantly larger operation.
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The author speculated that the variation in orientation behaviour may be driven by seasonal activity patterns.
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Historians are on firmer ground reconstructing and analyzing past events than they are speculating about what might have happened.
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Many researchers have speculated as to why volunteering promotes positive outcomes.
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He speculates that this may have allowed modern behaviour to develop and that it may have done so in two ways.
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We speculated that this concept of core semantic knowledge may be a victim of the more detailed specification of knowledge types that we are advocating.
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She therefore speculated that these students were not experiencing sufficient levels of anxiety to inhibit their performance.
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To be speculated on also, is the relation between metaphor and joke in relevance theory terms.
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Even the possibility of methanogenic life consuming acetylene and hydrogen or silane-based life in hydrocarbon lakes has been speculated.
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The human mind is perfectly computable, maybe even classically, as we have speculated.
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Genotyping errors have been speculated to have a minor role in relatedness estimation.
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I speculated that some or all of them might have been inserted by a copy editor.
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Interactions between carbohydrates in parasites and lectins in fish can be speculated to be both positive and negative.
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