speculating是什么意思？

speculating

• v. 思索，猜测，推测( speculate的现在分词 )，投机；

例句

• Many people are now speculating whether we will demolish the Memorial Hall. 现在世界上都在猜测我们要毁掉纪念堂.
• He sat there speculating on his misfortunes. 他坐在那儿思索着自己不幸的事.
• I lay in bed speculating what to do next. 我躺在床上思考着下一步做什么.
• He'd been speculating in shares and lost a lot of money. 他一直在做股票的投机生意,赔了许多钱.
• There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them... 原因可能有很多，他不打算浪费时间对此妄加猜测。
• Government sources are now openly speculating about a possible successor for Dr Lawrence... 官方消息人士在公开推测谁有可能成为接任劳伦斯博士的人选。
• They are speculating on the imponderables of the future. 他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
• 'We don't know the answer to that.' — 'Exactly — so shut up and stop speculating.'... “我们不知道那个问题的答案。”——“就是——那就闭嘴，别瞎猜。”

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。