Speculate

['spekjʊleɪt] or ['spɛkjə'let]

解释:

(verb.) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; 'Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps'.

(verb.) talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion; 'We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal'.

(verb.) invest at a risk; 'I bought this house not because I want to live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am speculating'.

整理:谢尔登--From WordNet

解释:

(v. i.) To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.

(v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.

(v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.

(v. t.) To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.

整理:桑娅

同义词及近义词：

v. n. [1]. Meditate, contemplate, cogitate, reflect, ponder, muse, ruminate, think, consider.[2]. Trade (hazardously).

手打:瓦内萨

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Consider, meditate, theorize, cogitate,[See COGITATE]

格伦达整理

解释:

v.i. to look at or into with the mind: to consider: to theorise: to traffic for great profit.—ns. Speculā′tion act of speculating: mental view: contemplation: theory: the buying goods &c. to sell them at an advance any more or less risky investment of money for the sake of unusually large profits; Spec′ulātist a speculative philosopher.—adj. Spec′ūlātive given to speculation or theory: ideal: pertaining to speculation in business &c.—adv. Spec′ulātively.—ns. Spec′ulātiveness the state of being speculative; Spec′ulātor one who engages in mental speculations or who practises speculation in trade or business of any kind.—adj. Spec′ūlātory exercising speculation: adapted for spying or viewing.—n. Spec′ulātrix a female speculator.

整理:韦尔登