speculations

英 [ˌspɛkjʊˈleɪʃənz]

美 [ˌspɛkjəˈleɪʃənz]

n.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机买卖; 炒股
speculation的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推测;猜测;猜想
  If youspeculateabout something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.
  1. Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead...
     对该项目持批评态度的人在推测如果改作他用不知可以建多少所医院。
  2. It would be unfair to Debby's family to speculate on the reasons for her suicide...
     猜测黛比自杀的原因对她的家人来说是不公平的。
  3. The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head...
     医生推测他死于头部受击引起的脑溢血。
  4. The reader can speculate what will happen next.
     读者可以推测下一步会发生什么事。
• VERB 投机;做投机买卖
  If someonespeculatesfinancially, they buy property, stocks, or shares, in the hope of being able to sell them again at a higher price and make a profit.
  1. Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices...
     大农场主正在不断涌进来，不是为了耕作，而是要利用不断上涨的地价进行投机。
  2. The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped.
     各银行贷出去太多高风险贷款，目前无法收回，他们还进行地产投机，而地产的价值目前已经下跌了。

双语例句

• I know the danger of indulging such speculations.
  我知道这样胡思乱想是危险的。
• The report released by the committee today employs many rumors and speculations to prove non-existent accusations.
  委员会今日发布的报告采信了许多谣言和猜测，以证明各项并不存在的指控。
• Karl Marx deserves serious study for his analysis, but not for his speculations about how a society should be run.
  卡尔-马克斯的分析理应得到认真的研究，但他对社会应当如何运作的假想就免了。
• Which of these speculations will come true in China first?
  我的这些猜想，哪一项会在中国率先实现？
• Future generations will probably consider current speculations about humanity's place in the universe to be marred by omissions and errors; even rigorous scientific views change, sometimes overnight.
  我们的后代很有可能认为现在我们对于人类在宇宙中的地位的推测被被疏忽和过失所破坏；即使是非常严格的科学观点也会在一夜间改变。
• We heard all kinds of speculations about the causes of his death.
  我们听到关于他死亡原因的种种猜测。
• The mosquito season gives rise to countless speculations about possible solutions to the age-old mystery of mosquito preferences.
  对于关于蚊子喜好的可能性解释，蚊子的繁殖季节提供了无数的猜想。
• But I am sorry to report that his wild speculations have now been confirmed by an intriguing natural experiment.
  我非常遗憾地告诉你，他的大胆揣测现在已经被一项有趣的自然试验证实了。
• All his reflections and speculations inevitably led to the one conclusion.
  他的一切思索和考虑不可避免地引导出一个结论。
• The young man is self-willed, and unwilling to take advice about some speculations in business.
  这年轻人一意孤行，做一些投机生意时不愿听取别人劝告。