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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He speculates that one reason why it may be more difficult to clone monkeys and humans is because the egg cells are more fragile than those of other species.
  他推测克隆猴子和人类的难度更大的原因之一可能是和其它物种相比，猴子和人类的卵细胞更脆弱。
• She speculates on the exchange.
  她做证券投机买卖。
• 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。
• 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。
• Gilbert speculates that the reason for this increase of transport rate is the reduction of friction losses by the presence of fine suspended material in the flow.
  吉尔勃特认为输沙率增加的理由，是水流中存在的细悬移泥沙将减少阻力损失。
• 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。