Wordiyospeculate
🇬🇧 UK/'spekjuleit/🇺🇸 US
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Definitions
v.
To form opinions without firm evidence; to conjecture; to make risky financial investments hoping for profit.
推测；猜测；投机
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedCommon Collocations
- 1.speculate about对……进行推测
- 2.speculate on就……进行猜测；在……上投机
- 3.wildly speculate胡乱猜测
- 4.[speculate freely]自由推测
Example Sentences
- 1.
Experts can only speculate about the cause of the ancient civilization's collapse.
- 2.
It would be unwise to speculate on stocks without understanding the market.
- 3.
Journalists began to speculate wildly about the CEO's sudden resignation.