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

• Your speculations were all quite close to the truth.
  你的揣测都很接近于事实。
• What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work.
  没有性别歧视的城市是什么样子？对房屋，城市设计和人类分工的思考。
• This is not the first time that speculations about a marriage involving the two have surfaced.
  之前就曾出现过有关两人婚礼的猜测。
• 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。
• For hypothetical speculations, but* You? A rooster?
  做这样的假想未免太早了点，你？一只公鸡？
• Keep your speculations and worries to yourself.
  把你的猜测和担忧都埋在心里吧。
• I know the danger of indulging such speculations.
  我知道这样胡思乱想是危险的。
• These speculations sound like science fiction. But the theory of black holes in space is accepted by many serious scientists and astronomers.
  这些设想听起来像科幻小说，但空间中黑洞的理论被许多严谨的科学家和天文学家接受。
• As the bubble progresses, they will inevitably take on more debt to finance their speculations.
  随着泡沫的发展，他们将不可避免地扩大举债规模，以便为投机行为提供资金。
• 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。