Speculative

例句:

• We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There was not a moment to be wasted on the purely speculative question of Betteredge's conscience. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Samuel Edison did well at this occupation, and employed several men, but there were other outlets from time to time for his business activity and speculative disposition. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Much of this map is of course speculative, but its broad outlines must be fairly like those of the world in which men first became men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have failed to mention Hippocrates (460-370 B.C) the Father of Medicine, in whom is found an intimate union of practical science and speculative philosophy. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He also becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Luxury building and speculative company promotion had been restrained. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We know very little of his purely speculative thought. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• And if from a speculative angle the Marxian tradition has shaded too heavily the economic facts, it was at least a plausible and practical exaggeration. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Vitruvius had the Roman practical and regulative genius, not th e abstract and speculative genius of Athens. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He may study from the speculative side the profession or business in which he is practically engaged. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He liked to read books about the primitive man, books of anthropology, and also works of speculative philosophy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Here were the factors of a bad economic atmosphere, suspicious, feverish, greedy, and speculative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The operations of the speculative merchant are principally employed about such commodities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Here again, howev er, it is the fundamental, the indispensable, the practical forms of knowledge that stand revealed rather than the theoretical, speculative, and purely intellectual. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• So long as there have been birds to watch, so long have men of speculative minds wondered at the secret of their flight. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Gr eat, indeed, as we shall see in the next chapter, are the contributions to the growth of science of this highly rational and speculative people. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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