speculate
speculate 英 [ˈspekjuleɪt] 美 [ˈspɛkjəˌlet]
v. 推测；投机；思索
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- When you speculate, you use what you know to make a prediction about an outcome, like when you speculate that the injury of two key players will prevent your favorite team from going far in the playoffs this year.
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- v. 推测；投机；思索
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1. We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.
我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。
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2. It is useless to speculate why he did it.
对他为什么这么做妄加猜测毫无用处。
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3. He likes to speculate on the stock market.
他喜欢炒股。
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4. We can speculate that the stone circles were used in some sort of pagan ceremony.
我们可以推测，这些石头排成的圆圈是用于某种异教崇拜仪式的。
- speculate (v.) 1590s, "view mentally, contemplate" (transitive), back-formation from speculation. Also formerly "view as from a watchtower" (1610s). Intransitive sense of "pursue truth by conjecture or thinking" is from 1670s. Meaning "to invest money upon risk for the sake of profit" is from 1785. Related: Speculated; speculating.
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