speculation

[.spekju'leiʃən]

n.推测, 投机, 沉思

n.[U][C]

1. 思索; 沉思; 推测[(+about/on/upon)]

There has been a great deal of speculation about the Prime Minister's resignation.

最近有关首相辞职的臆测颇多。

2. 投机; 投机买卖[(+in)]

His speculations in stocks led to his suicide.

他在股票上做投机买卖致使他自杀。

词形变化

动词过去式: speculated | 动词过去分词: speculated | 动词现在分词: speculating | 动词第三人称单数: speculates |

词义辨析

同义:

n.思考, 考虑, 沉思, 深思, 脑力劳动

thinking  thought  reflection  meditation  contemplation  musing  pondering  brooding  cogitation  rumination  cerebration  lucubration  brainwork  headwork  examination  deliberation  mulling  weighing

n.推理, 推测, 见解, 设想, 猜测, 感觉

inference  deduction  judgment  conclusion  conviction  persuasion  position  surmise  guess  impression  assumption  supposition  presumption  postulate  postulation  guesswork  suspicion  feeling  theory  conjecture  forecast

n.买卖, 投机

venture  trading  gambling  sporting  risk of capital  investment  playing the stock market  

同义参见:

conception  prospect  prediction  study  consideration  shot  

英英释义

名词 speculation:

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

同义词：guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, hypothesis

a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)

同义词：conjecture

an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

同义词：venture

continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature

同义词：meditation

补充

speculationspeculation英:[ˌspekjuˈleiʃən] 美:[ˌspɛkjəˈleʃən]n.1.思考, 思索, 推断, 推测2.推测的结论; 猜测3.投机活动4.投机买卖, 投机生意

例句

1. He dismissed their theories as mere speculation.他认为他们的理论仅仅是种推测，所以不予考虑。 2. The book is just a lot of idle speculation about the future.这本书只是一大堆对未来漫无边际的猜测。 3. There is speculation that he will run for president again. [=some people think that he might run for president again]有猜测说他将再次竞选总统。 4. Her speculations leave many questions unanswered.她的种种猜测留下了很多没有回答的问题。 5. He lost everything in foolish land speculation.他在愚蠢的土地投机买卖中失去了一切。