speculates

英 [ˈspekjuleɪts]

美 [ˈspekjuleɪts]

v.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机; 做投机买卖
speculate的第三人称单数

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

• He speculates that market reformers at the central bank may be trying to shake up the domestic financial markets.
  他猜测，央行的市场改革派或许在试图提振本国金融市场。
• Diane Hoskins of Gensler speculates that her company's findings about open-plan offices are so striking that they may mark the beginning of a new era in workplace organisation.
  公司Gensler的黛安·霍斯金斯推测，她们公司的开放办公室表现是如此引人注目，标志着办公室组织方式的一个新时代。
• Dan Pinkston, a Seoul-based analyst with the International Crisis Group, speculates Washington and Pyongyang may soon reach a verification compromise.
  平克斯顿是“国际危机组织”驻首尔的分析人士。他推测，华盛顿和平壤很快会就核实核清单的问题达成一项妥协性协议。
• The smaller arteries, she speculates, may be occluded earlier in life, leading to heart disease, due to factors such as poorer socioeconomic background and poor nutrition, for instance.
  她推测认为，内径较小的动脉，在诸如糟糕的社会经济状况及营养不良等因素的影响下，可能提前发生闭塞，从而发生心脏疾病。
• During speculates that the mice in the enhanced cages have "some degree of anxiety" because of living in a larger space and having more fellow mice to deal with.
  During推测，在资源配备充足的笼内老鼠会有“某种程度的焦虑感”，因为生活在这么一个偌大的空间内，需要和更多的同伴相处。
• To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.
  为了需要他的鞋带，他投机在畜牧之中。
• Durrington Walls was used for feasts and rituals that celebrated life, while Stonehenge was both a memorial and final resting place for the dead, the archaeologist speculates.
  杜灵顿墙用于节日和庆祝生命，而巨石阵则是缅怀和容留逝者的场所。
• She speculates on the exchange.
  她做证券投机买卖。
• Gilbert speculates that the reason for this increase of transport rate is the reduction of friction losses by the presence of fine suspended material in the flow.
  吉尔勃特认为输沙率增加的理由，是水流中存在的细悬移泥沙将减少阻力损失。
• Despite being a cure though Klaus speculates it could mean all their deaths.
  虽然可以治愈不死症，但克劳斯推测，这可能意味着他们的死亡。