speculated是什么意思？

speculated

• v. 思索，猜测，推测( speculate的过去式和过去分词 )，投机；

例句

• The philosopher speculated about time and space. 这位哲学家在思索时间和空间问题。
• Some researchers have speculated that high - heeled shoes may be to blame. 有研究者推测高跟鞋可能是罪魁祸首.
• Would he be what he is if he hadn't speculated on the stock of exchange? 如果不搞证券投机买卖,他会成为今天这个样子 吗 ?
• He speculated that he would succeed. 他推测他将成功.
• A touch whimsically, Nim speculated on whether he was falling in love. 尼姆突然异想天开地想到他是否正陷入情网.
• The philosopher speculated about the future of the human race. 那位哲学家考虑过人类的前途.
• It had been speculated that the settlement could have left her the world's richest ever divorcee. 大家一直在猜测他会给自己世界上最富有的前妻留下多少分手费.
• 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。

英语六级真题

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Naomi Pugh at Freed-Hardeman University speculated that professors would have to work harder to enliven their classes
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
In an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, "you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldn't write at all".
出自-2013年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  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。
• 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.
  例句
  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。