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

• 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。
• Instead, the eyes might express intensity, he speculates.
  他推测，实际上，眼睛或许能够传递感情的强弱。
• 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。
• He speculates that the government is counting on Google and apple to twist arms in the ad world.
  他推测，政府将指望谷歌和苹果在世界范围内扭转乾坤。
• He speculates that one reason why it may be more difficult to clone monkeys and humans is because the egg cells are more fragile than those of other species.
  他推测克隆猴子和人类的难度更大的原因之一可能是和其它物种相比，猴子和人类的卵细胞更脆弱。
• The author speculates as to whether there could have been an Italian version of the Nuremberg trials, and what difference it might have made.
  作者思索，当初是否有可能上演一场意大利版的纽伦堡审判，而且结果会有什么不同。
• 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。
• 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。
• Dyer speculates that giving positive emotions a negative spin might help us regulate that high energy.
  Dyer推测到，用消极的方法表现积极情绪也许能帮助人控制过剩的精力。
• The Business Insider blog speculates that Zynga will get free ad space on Facebook in return.
  美国科技博客“商业内幕人士”（BusinessInsider）猜测，作为回报，Zynga因此将可在Facebook上获得免费的广告位。