speculation 英 [,spekjʊ'leɪʃn]   美 [,spɛkju'leʃən]

speculation

speculation  英 [,spekjʊ'leɪʃn] 美 [,spɛkju'leʃən]

n. 投机;推测;猜测;推断 

名词复数:speculations 

He exhausted a fortune in stock-market speculation. 他在股市投机买卖中倾家荡产。
There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign. 人们纷纷推测她将辞职。

  • When you guess about how something is going to come out (or how it happened), that's speculation. You're making an educated guess.
  • 请先登录
  • n. 投机;推测;猜测;推断
  • 1. He exhausted a fortune in stock-market speculation.

    他在股市投机买卖中倾家荡产。

  • 2. There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign.

    人们纷纷推测她将辞职。

  • 3. His private life is the subject of much speculation.

    他的私生活引起诸多猜测。

  • 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。

  • 5. Our speculations proved right.

    事实证明,我们的推断是对的。

  • 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").
specu·la·tion / ˌspekjuˈleɪʃn ; NAmE ˌspekjuˈleɪʃn / noun 1 [uncountable ,  countable ] the act of forming opinions about what has happened or what might happen without knowing all the facts 推测;猜测;推断 speculation(that…) There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign. 人们纷纷推测她将辞职。 His private life is the subject of much speculation. 他的私生活引起诸多猜测。 speculation(about/over sth) Today's announcement ends months of speculation about the company's future. 今天的声明使得几个月来关于公司未来的种种猜测就此烟消云散。 She dismissed the newspaper reports as pure speculation. 她说报纸上的报道毫无根据,纯属臆断。 Our speculations proved right. 事实证明,我们的推断是对的。 2 [uncountable ,  countable ] speculation(in sth) the activity of buying and selling goods or shares in a company in the hope of making a profit, but with the risk of losing money 投机买卖;炒股 speculation speculations specu·la·tion / ˌspekjuˈleɪʃn ; NAmE ˌspekjuˈleɪʃn /
  • 请先登录