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

• He'd been speculating in shares and lost a lot of money.
  他一直在做股票的投机生意，赔了许多钱。
• Do you confuse speculating with investing?
  你是否混同了投机和投资？
• I don't really know what happened& I'm just speculating.
  我不清楚发生了什么&我只是在推测而已。
• Government sources are now openly speculating about a possible successor for Dr Lawrence
  官方消息人士在公开推测谁有可能成为接任劳伦斯博士的人选。
• 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。
• He has been charged with speculating in foreign currency.
  他被指控进行外币投机买卖。
• They are speculating on the imponderables of the future.
  他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
• 'We don't know the answer to that.' — 'Exactly — so shut up and stop speculating.'
  “我们不知道那个问题的答案。”——“就是——那就闭嘴，别瞎猜。”
• Some companies found speculating in the market more profitable than investing in new machinery.
  一些企业发现，炒股比投资购买新机器更有利可图。
• She amassed a fortune by speculating on the stock exchange.
  她透过在股票交易投机上积累了一笔财富。