vt.推測
vi.投機；深思
The doctors speculate that he died of cancer. 醫(yī)生推測他死于癌癥。
Can you speculate how such damage might arise? 你能否想出這種傷害是怎樣引起的?
用作不及物動詞 (vi.)He likes to speculate on the stock market. 他喜歡炒股。
It's dangerous to speculate. 做投機買賣是很危險的。
He did not speculate on who would get the prize. 他沒有去猜測誰將得獎。
speculate的基本意思是“思索”“猜測”,指考慮或談論某事而前提不確定或不完整,只是憑空猜想或僅憑推理,因此其結論往往具有假設性或理論性,本詞強調(diào)推理過程。
speculate可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,常接that從句。
