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

• They are speculating, not investing, and like all speculators what they are speculating on is the speculations of other speculators.
  他们是在投机，而非投资；就像所有投机者一样，他们投机的是其它投机者的投机。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many such speculations passed through my mind that night.
  在那个夜晚，许许多多诸如此类的思绪在我脑海中翻腾。
• 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？
• 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。
• It must not be occupied with problems, with worries, with speculations.
  你的心一定不能被问题、烦恼及臆测所占据。
• As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others, she said.
  在我可能成为第一个非裔第一夫人时，我也成为一系列问题，以及引发的推测与谈话的焦点。这些东西有时是出于对他人的恐惧与错误观念，她说。
• 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。
• Such speculations no longer belong to the realm of science.
  这些推测已越出了科学的范畴。