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

• 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 the government is counting on Google and apple to twist arms in the ad world.
  他推测，政府将指望谷歌和苹果在世界范围内扭转乾坤。
• Instead, the eyes might express intensity, he speculates.
  他推测，实际上，眼睛或许能够传递感情的强弱。
• Zhang speculates that the mutations change the local structure of the chromosome, interfering with the production of nearby genes.
  基因突变改变了此处染色体结构，影响了附近基因的产生。
• Dan Pinkston, a Seoul-based analyst with the International Crisis Group, speculates Washington and Pyongyang may soon reach a verification compromise.
  平克斯顿是“国际危机组织”驻首尔的分析人士。他推测，华盛顿和平壤很快会就核实核清单的问题达成一项妥协性协议。
• 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。
• 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。
• Diane Hoskins of Gensler speculates that her company's findings about open-plan offices are so striking that they may mark the beginning of a new era in workplace organisation.
  公司Gensler的黛安·霍斯金斯推测，她们公司的开放办公室表现是如此引人注目，标志着办公室组织方式的一个新时代。
• The smaller arteries, she speculates, may be occluded earlier in life, leading to heart disease, due to factors such as poorer socioeconomic background and poor nutrition, for instance.
  她推测认为，内径较小的动脉，在诸如糟糕的社会经济状况及营养不良等因素的影响下，可能提前发生闭塞，从而发生心脏疾病。
• She speculates on the exchange.
  她做证券投机买卖。