Speculative
['spekjʊlətɪv] or ['spɛkjələtɪv]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Given to speculation; contemplative.
(a.) Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
(a.) Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
(a.) Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Contemplative, unpractical, Platonic, philosophical, given to speculation.[2]. Theoretical, ideal, imaginary.[3]. Given to hazardous trading.
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例句/造句/用法:
- We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- There was not a moment to be wasted on the purely speculative question of Betteredge's conscience. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The speculative merchant exercises no one regular, established, or well-known branch of business. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He also becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Luxury building and speculative company promotion had been restrained. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We know very little of his purely speculative thought. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Vitruvius had the Roman practical and regulative genius, not th e abstract and speculative genius of Athens. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He may study from the speculative side the profession or business in which he is practically engaged. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He liked to read books about the primitive man, books of anthropology, and also works of speculative philosophy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Here were the factors of a bad economic atmosphere, suspicious, feverish, greedy, and speculative. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The operations of the speculative merchant are principally employed about such commodities. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- So long as there have been birds to watch, so long have men of speculative minds wondered at the secret of their flight. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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