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

• Media reports have speculated on the huge fortune he amassed from selling stock advice.
  媒体报道对他通过出售股票建议敛聚的巨额财富多有猜测。
• He has speculated on why this is so.
  他曾经思考过为什么会这样。
• Other researchers have speculated that this more-organized musical structure may have greater resonance for the brain.
  其他研究者已经查明，这种更有组织的音乐结构可能对大脑有更强的共鸣作用。
• People have speculated about human cognition for 2000 years.
  人们对人类的认知力已思索了2000年。
• It is also speculated that neither Healthy Choice Foods nor the airlines were seriously disadvantaged by the outcome.
  这也是推测，既不健康食品的选择，航空公司也受到严重的不利结果。
• He speculated on the reform of the methods of inquiry.
  他提出改革研究方法的意见。
• He speculated that he would succeed.
  他推测他将成功。
• 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。
• The researchers speculated that people who carry only one defective copy might be less prone to hypertension.
  研究人员推测只携带一个缺陷基因的人可能更容易发生高血压。
• 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。