speculation
speculation 英 [,spekjʊ'leɪʃn] 美 [,spɛkju'leʃən]
n. 投机；推测；猜测；推断
名词复数:speculations
- When you guess about how something is going to come out (or how it happened), that's speculation. You're making an educated guess.
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- n. 投机；推测；猜测；推断
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1. He exhausted a fortune in stock-market speculation.
他在股市投机买卖中倾家荡产。
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2. There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign.
人们纷纷推测她将辞职。
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3. His private life is the subject of much speculation.
他的私生活引起诸多猜测。
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4. She dismissed the newspaper reports as pure speculation.
她说报纸上的报道毫无根据，纯属臆断。
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5. Our speculations proved right.
事实证明，我们的推断是对的。
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6. He made his money in property speculation.
他靠房地产投机发了财.
- speculation (n.) late 14c., "intelligent contemplation, consideration; act of looking," from Old French speculacion "close observation, rapt attention," and directly from Late Latin speculationem (nominative speculatio) "contemplation, observation," noun of action from Latin speculatus, past participle of speculari "observe," from specere "to look at, view" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe").
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