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Speculation Latin Meaning Recorded 4472.Speculation 英 Spekjʊ'Leɪʃn]美 Spɛkju'leʃən

正面 4472.speculation
英 [,spekjʊ'leɪʃn]美 [,spɛkju'leʃən]

背面
释义:
n. 投机;推测;思索;投机买卖
例句:
1. Speculation centred on a likely bid price of 380p a share.大多数人猜测买方出价可能为每股380便士。

1. gazelle(n 瞪羚)=> gaze.2. 谐音“给视”。
speculation 推测,猜测,投机,炒股speculate,推测,猜测,投机,炒股,-ion,名词后缀。
speculation (n.)late 14c., "intelligent contemplation, consideration; act of looking," from Old French speculacion "close observation, rapt attention," and directly from Late Latin speculationem (nominative speculatio) "contemplation, observation," noun of action from Latin speculatus, past participle of speculari "observe," from specere "to look at, view" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "pursuit of the truth by means of thinking" is from mid-15c. Disparaging sense of "mere conjecture" is recorded from 1570s. Meaning "buying and selling in search of profit from rise and fall of market value" is recorded from 1774; short form spec is attested from 1794."

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