| 英语单词 | speculate |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['spekjuleɪt] 美 ['spekjuleɪt] |
| 中文释义 | vt.推测 vi.投机;深思 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The doctors speculate that he died of cancer. (2) He likes to speculate on the stock market. (3) It's dangerous to speculate. (4) He did not speculate on who would get the prize. (5) He began to speculate about the future. (6) She often speculated as to what sort of man she would marry. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 医生推测他死于癌症。 (2) 他喜欢炒股。 (3) 做投机买卖是很危险的。 (4) 他没有去猜测谁将得奖。 (5) 他开始思索未来。 (6) 她常常在想将来自己会跟什麽样的人结婚。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When you speculate, you use what you know to make a prediction about an outcome, like when you speculate that the injury of two key players will prevent your favorite team from going far in the playoffs this year. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The verb speculate has a specialized meaning in the world of finance — it means to take a financial risk, in the hopes of monetary gain. For example, a business owner may speculate that a brand-new kind of frozen yogurt will be really popular, so she buys a huge order of it for her ice cream store. Someone who speculates goes looking for next big thing, as seen in the word's Latin origin, speculatus, meaning "to spy out, examine." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]推测;猜测;猜想 If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen. [V prep] [V that] [V wh] [Also V]
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2 [VERB 动词]投机;做投机买卖 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. [V prep/adv] [Also V]
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