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

• 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。
• The group speculates that another symbiont abundant in aphids is compensating for the loss.
  研究人员进一步推测出在蚜虫内还富含另外一种共生体来弥补这种损失。
• 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, 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。
• The Business Insider blog speculates that Zynga will get free ad space on Facebook in return.
  美国科技博客“商业内幕人士”（BusinessInsider）猜测，作为回报，Zynga因此将可在Facebook上获得免费的广告位。
• 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。
• Mock speculates that car interiors might not be suitably designed for heavy people.
  莫克推测，汽车的内部设计或许不适合于胖人。
• 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。
• And he speculates that people from older generations or different cultures who may not have grown up knowing they were interacting with gay people may be less accurate in making gay versus straight judgments.
  并且他推测：老一辈的人，或是在不知道会与同性恋人群接触的文化背景中成长的人们，他们可能会在同性恋和异性恋辨别中准确率会比较低。
• 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。