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

• 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 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。
• But capovilla speculates that a battery-like back-up might help them in times of environmental stress, such as when they are migrating to a new host plant.
  而capovilla的猜测则是一个蓄电池当环境紧张时作为备用能量帮助蚜虫，如正当它们迁移到一个新寄主植物时。
• Despite being a cure though Klaus speculates it could mean all their deaths.
  虽然可以治愈不死症，但克劳斯推测，这可能意味着他们的死亡。
• The group speculates that another symbiont abundant in aphids is compensating for the loss.
  研究人员进一步推测出在蚜虫内还富含另外一种共生体来弥补这种损失。
• 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。
• And he speculates that people from older generations or different cultures who may not have grown up knowing they were interacting with gay people may be less accurate in making gay versus straight judgments.
  并且他推测：老一辈的人，或是在不知道会与同性恋人群接触的文化背景中成长的人们，他们可能会在同性恋和异性恋辨别中准确率会比较低。
• Durrington Walls was used for feasts and rituals that celebrated life, while Stonehenge was both a memorial and final resting place for the dead, the archaeologist speculates.
  杜灵顿墙用于节日和庆祝生命，而巨石阵则是缅怀和容留逝者的场所。
• 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。
• 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。