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。
• He speculates that the next America's Cup victor might tack more sharply using a bumpy rudder.
  」预测下一届美国杯帆船赛的胜利者，很可能使用凹凸不平的方向舵，灵活地御风航行。
• The author speculates as to whether there could have been an Italian version of the Nuremberg trials, and what difference it might have made.
  作者思索，当初是否有可能上演一场意大利版的纽伦堡审判，而且结果会有什么不同。
• He speculates that market reformers at the central bank may be trying to shake up the domestic financial markets.
  他猜测，央行的市场改革派或许在试图提振本国金融市场。
• Dyer speculates that giving positive emotions a negative spin might help us regulate that high energy.
  Dyer推测到，用消极的方法表现积极情绪也许能帮助人控制过剩的精力。
• He speculates that, for reasons as yet unknown, a mother's immune system takes note of the number of male offspring and that each succeeding male fetus is subjected to increased levels of antibodies.
  他推测，尚不为人知的原因，母体免疫系统可监测男性子代的，并且升高的抗体会每后孕男胎。
• 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。
• Zhang speculates that the mutations change the local structure of the chromosome, interfering with the production of nearby genes.
  基因突变改变了此处染色体结构，影响了附近基因的产生。
• 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。
• But capovilla speculates that a battery-like back-up might help them in times of environmental stress, such as when they are migrating to a new host plant.
  而capovilla的猜测则是一个蓄电池当环境紧张时作为备用能量帮助蚜虫，如正当它们迁移到一个新寄主植物时。