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

• Gilbert speculates that the reason for this increase of transport rate is the reduction of friction losses by the presence of fine suspended material in the flow.
  吉尔勃特认为输沙率增加的理由，是水流中存在的细悬移泥沙将减少阻力损失。
• It speculates that, even if the nutritional values of whole fruit and fruit juice are similar, the difference lies with the fact that one food is a semi-solid and the other a liquid.
  据推测，即使这些水果和果汁的营养价值相似，同一食物的半固体状态和液体状态有一定区别也是有一定事实依据的。
• 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。
• Zuckerman speculates that the rise of guarantees in contemporary art may be related to the number of financiers who collect it: These are people who understand risk and reward from their business life.
  泽克乐曼推测，当代艺术品保底拍卖的上升趋势也许与收藏这类艺术品的金融家的人数有关。这些人由于丰富的从商经历，对风险和回报十分了解。
• Jiang Zhi observes and focuses on this crucial moment and speculates on its effects on people.
  蒋志以敏锐的眼光洞察出并关注这一关键时刻以及深思这一时刻对人的影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。