speculated

英 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪd]

美 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪd]

v.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机; 做投机买卖
speculate的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推测;猜测;猜想
  If youspeculateabout something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
  1. Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead...
     对该项目持批评态度的人在推测如果改作他用不知可以建多少所医院。
  2. It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide...
     猜测黛比自杀的原因对她的家人来说是不公平的。
  3. The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head...
     医生推测他死于头部受击引起的脑溢血。
  4. The reader can speculate what will happen next.
     读者可以推测下一步会发生什么事。
• VERB 投机;做投机买卖
  If someonespeculatesfinancially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit.
  1. Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices...
     大农场主正在不断涌进来，不是为了耕作，而是要利用不断上涨的地价进行投机。
  2. The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
     各银行贷出去太多高风险贷款，目前无法收回，他们还进行地产投机，而地产的价值目前已经下跌了。

双语例句

• Scientists have speculated about the possibility of parallel universes.
  科学家们推测了并列星系的可能性。
• Some experts have speculated that sleep may be an evolutionary mechanism to conserve energy.
  一些科学家猜测，睡眠可能是保存能量的一种转化机制。
• Many speculated that the US would put the peace process on the back burner
  很多人推测美国将会暂时搁置和平进程。
• People have speculated about human cognition for 2000 years.
  人们对人类的认知力已思索了2000年。
• Bible scholars have speculated as to what this thorn might have been, but no one knows for sure.
  圣经学者们推测这根刺有可能是什么，但没有人确切地知道。
• This is most probably because the increase in neural activity weakens the fly's life-support systems, they speculated.
  据科学家推测，这可能是因为神经系统活动的增多会削弱苍蝇的生命支持系统。
• Price and her colleagues don't know what caused the changes in both the brain and the scores they documented, but speculated they could be a result of learning experiences.
  普赖斯和她的同事不知道是什么同时导致大脑和他们记录的智商分数发生了变化，但猜测这可能是学习经验的结果。
• He speculated that he would succeed.
  他推测他将成功。
• Investors have already speculated BP might reset the dividend at about half its previous level.
  投资者已经在猜测，BP可能将股息水平调整为之前的一半左右。
• But he had learned his lesson. Never since then had he speculated.
  可是他已经得到教训了，从那次以后他再也不敢做投机生意。