VERB 推测;猜测;猜想 If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
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。
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。
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。
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 someone speculates financially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit.
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。
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。
The story of black holes is just beginning. Speculations about them are endless. 对黑洞的研究刚刚开始,各种推测会层出不穷。
Which of these speculations will come true in China first? 我的这些猜想,哪一项会在中国率先实现?
These speculations sound like science fiction. But the theory of black holes in space is accepted by many serious scientists and astronomers. 这些设想听起来像科幻小说,但空间中黑洞的理论被许多严谨的科学家和天文学家接受。
The report released by the committee today employs many rumors and speculations to prove non-existent accusations. 委员会今日发布的报告采信了许多谣言和猜测,以证明各项并不存在的指控。
As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others, she said. 在我可能成为第一个非裔第一夫人时,我也成为一系列问题,以及引发的推测与谈话的焦点。这些东西有时是出于对他人的恐惧与错误观念,她说。
A planetary alignment is a rare spectacular event that has always been a topic of great interest and speculations. 行星连成一线这种罕见奇观一直是人们关注和争相猜测的焦点。
The mosquito season gives rise to countless speculations about possible solutions to the age-old mystery of mosquito preferences. 对于关于蚊子喜好的可能性解释,蚊子的繁殖季节提供了无数的猜想。
This is not the first time that speculations about a marriage involving the two have surfaced. 之前就曾出现过有关两人婚礼的猜测。
Keep your speculations and worries to yourself. 把你的猜测和担忧都埋在心里吧。
Your speculations were all quite close to the truth. 你的揣测都很接近于事实。
Future generations will probably consider current speculations about humanity's place in the universe to be marred by omissions and errors; even rigorous scientific views change, sometimes overnight. 我们的后代很有可能认为现在我们对于人类在宇宙中的地位的推测被被疏忽和过失所破坏;即使是非常严格的科学观点也会在一夜间改变。
We heard all kinds of speculations about the causes of his death. 我们听到关于他死亡原因的种种猜测。
My offer was based on reasonable profit, not wild speculations. 我的报价以合理利润为基础,不是漫天要价。
Such speculations no longer belong to the realm of science. 这些推测已越出了科学的范畴。
For hypothetical speculations, but* You? A rooster? 做这样的假想未免太早了点,你?一只公鸡?
Post your speculations in the comments! 在评论中贴出你的推测吧!
Many such speculations passed through my mind that night. 在那个夜晚,许许多多诸如此类的思绪在我脑海中翻腾。
His speculations in stocks led to his suicide. 他在股票上做投机买卖致使他自杀。
They are speculating, not investing, and like all speculators what they are speculating on is the speculations of other speculators. 他们是在投机,而非投资;就像所有投机者一样,他们投机的是其它投机者的投机。
The young man is self-willed, and unwilling to take advice about some speculations in business. 这年轻人一意孤行,做一些投机生意时不愿听取别人劝告。
All his reflections and speculations inevitably led to the one conclusion. 他的一切思索和考虑不可避免地引导出一个结论。
What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work. 没有性别歧视的城市是什么样子?对房屋,城市设计和人类分工的思考。
As the bubble progresses, they will inevitably take on more debt to finance their speculations. 随着泡沫的发展,他们将不可避免地扩大举债规模,以便为投机行为提供资金。
Karl Marx deserves serious study for his analysis, but not for his speculations about how a society should be run. 卡尔-马克斯的分析理应得到认真的研究,但他对社会应当如何运作的假想就免了。
Only the positivists consider all metaphysical speculations as nonsense and reject any kind of apriorism. 只有寊证论者把所有的形而上学的思考看作胡说,而拒绝任何先验论。
The front door bell jangled viciously, interrupting the delightful speculations. 前门的门铃剧烈地响了起来,打断了玛莎小姐的美妙推测。
But I am sorry to report that his wild speculations have now been confirmed by an intriguing natural experiment. 我非常遗憾地告诉你,他的大胆揣测现在已经被一项有趣的自然试验证实了。
Mr peel cut in on their speculations in a tone of hurt surprise. 皮尔先生以一种痛苦而惊讶的口吻,插嘴加入了他们的推测。
It must not be occupied with problems, with worries, with speculations. 你的心一定不能被问题、烦恼及臆测所占据。
I know the danger of indulging such speculations. 我知道这样胡思乱想是危险的。