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

• 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。
• Jiang Zhi observes and focuses on this crucial moment and speculates on its effects on people.
  蒋志以敏锐的眼光洞察出并关注这一关键时刻以及深思这一时刻对人的影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He speculates that Nissan may have flown under the radar of its main competitors when they concentrated on the threat posed by South Korean producer Hyundai, the hottest ascendant Asian brand of the past few years.
  他认为，最近几年韩国汽车制造商现代（Hyundai）这一亚洲品牌的迅速崛起吸引了对手的大部分注意力，这也使得日产有时间养精蓄锐。