speculate 的定义
spec·u·lat·ed, spec·u·lat·ing.
- to engage in thought or reflection; meditate.
- to indulge in conjectural thought.
- to engage in any business transaction involving considerable risk or the chance of large gains, especially to buy and sell commodities, stocks, etc., in the expectation of a quick or very large profit.
speculate 近义词
think about deeply and theorize
speculate 的近义词 43 个
- contemplate
- figure out
- guess
- hypothesize
- read
- reflect
- ruminate
- surmise
- weigh
- wonder
- brainstorm
- cerebrate
- cogitate
- conjecture
- consider
- deliberate
- dope
- excogitate
- figure
- guesstimate
- meditate
- muse
- reason
- review
- scheme
- study
- suppose
- suspect
- beat one's brains
- build castles in air
- call it
- call the turn
- chew over
- dope out
- have a hunch
- hazard a guess
- head trip
- kick around
- pipe-dream
- psych out
- read between lines
- run it up flagpole
- size up
speculate 的反义词 7 个
gamble, risk
更多speculate例句
- Erosion may have partly worn away what was originally a circular earthwork, the researchers speculate.
- However, some of those people also speculate Apple may have plans to build a bigger ads business of its own.
- In the face of sustained hardship, which has the potential to encourage dangerously high levels of cortisol, a weak stress response — that is, producing less cortisol — could be “nature’s way of preserving the brain and body,” Gunnar speculates.
- Scientists have to speculate, which could go one of two or three ways, or maybe some way they haven’t seen yet.
- So a weak stress response could be “nature’s way of preserving the brain and body,” Gunnar now speculates.
- “Hence, there might be a net benefit, at least to some females, of breeding within the natal group,” the researchers speculate.
- We can only speculate as to the intentions behind these ambiguous words.
- Forgács did not care to speculate, repeatedly and vehemently claiming that he is not a political artist.
- I hesitate to speculate on exactly where the problem is, though after spending some time with the paper I have my suspicions.
- Some doctors speculate they are generated in the spinal cord.
- There were more subtle changes in him which it was too warm and dusty to speculate upon at the moment.
- Perhaps it was in the bottle of brandy that the peril lay; perhaps—but why speculate further!
- It was not a folly, in a rude age, to speculate on the first or fundamental principle of things.
- But there is no need to speculate on what might be, when we have positive and certain knowledge of what has been.
- But he snarled up at me like a startled animal, and I was obliged to go to bed and toss about and speculate.