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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Tao now speculates that something went wrong with the casting of a tiny number of souls that chose to cast something to destroy and strip knowledge.
  道现在猜测，在铸造一小部分灵魂时出了岔子，使其选择来铸造事物来破坏和剥夺知识。
• 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。
• 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。
• Mock speculates that car interiors might not be suitably designed for heavy people.
  莫克推测，汽车的内部设计或许不适合于胖人。
• The group speculates that another symbiont abundant in aphids is compensating for the loss.
  研究人员进一步推测出在蚜虫内还富含另外一种共生体来弥补这种损失。
• She speculates on the exchange.
  她做证券投机买卖。
• 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。