speculating

英 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪŋ]

v.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机; 做投机买卖
speculate的现在分词

现在分词：speculating　

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

• Some companies found speculating in the market more profitable than investing in new machinery.
  一些企业发现，炒股比投资购买新机器更有利可图。
• Traders make money by speculating on the rise and fall of share prices.
  股票交易者通过在股票价格的涨落中投机来赚钱。
• They are speculating on the imponderables of the future.
  他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
• He has been charged with speculating in foreign currency.
  他被指控进行外币投机买卖。
• 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。
• Speculating in commodities is done primarily on a commodities exchange.
  商品投机主要是在商品交易所里进行的。
• Speculating too heavily in options or futures because they're thought to be a way to get rich quick.
  在期权和期货上过度投机，因为它们被视为一种快速致富的途径。
• Do you confuse speculating with investing?
  你是否混同了投机和投资？
• If so, there is still a lot of money to be made speculating.
  但通过投机，还是有很多钱可以挣。
• Some people abroad have been speculating about which faction I belong to.
  国际上一些人在猜测我是哪一派。