及物动词

不及物动词

1. 推测;猜测;猜想
If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen.

speculation
The President has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy minister...
总统已竭力否认了对经济部长前途的猜测。
I had published my speculations about the future of the universe in the Review of Modern Physics.
我已经在《现代物理评论》上发表了自己对宇宙未来的猜测。

1. reflect deeply on a subject

e.g. I mulled over the events of the afternoon
philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

Synonym: chew overthink overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overruminate

2. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

e.g. Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

Synonym: theorizetheoriseconjecturehypothesizehypothesisehypothecatesuppose

3. 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

e.g. We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal

4. invest at a risk

e.g. 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

Synonym: job