speculating

英 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪŋ]

v.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机; 做投机买卖
speculate的现在分词

现在分词：speculating　

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

• Do you confuse speculating with investing?
  你是否混同了投机和投资？
• He made and lost a fortune speculating on Florida property ( a lesson Citigroup did not learn) and shares in the 1929 stock market crash.
  由于投机，他先是得到后又失去了一大笔财富，而他投机的对象就是佛罗里达房地产市场（这是花旗集团没有汲取的一个教训）和1929年股灾中的股票。
• Where possible you should explain why you the crisis has happened, but without speculating.
  可能的话，你解释危机发生的原因，但是不能猜测。
• Speculating in commodities is done primarily on a commodities exchange.
  商品投机主要是在商品交易所里进行的。
• So he spit in contempt on his father's speculating.
  因此他轻蔑的唾弃他父亲的投机行为。
• He's speculating in stocks and lost a lot of money.
  他在炒股，亏了不少钱。
• They are speculating on the imponderables of the future.
  他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
• Speculating with borrowed money is inherently risky and riskier the more complex and interconnected are the assets.
  用借来的钱投机本身就颇具风险而资产越复杂，互相关联度越高，风险就越大。
• Pandit also told the audience he supported the so-called Volcker rule, which would restrict banks from speculating on stocks and bonds with their own capital.
  潘伟迪还告诉读者们，他支持所谓的沃尔克法则（Volckerrule），这项法则将限制银行以自有资金对股票和债券进行投机。
• As the price curves have flattened for most commodities, the imports are for speculating in price increase.
  当大部分商品的价格曲线已经平缓的时候，用于投机的进口商品价格就会提高。