speculating

英 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈspekjuleɪtɪŋ]

v.  推测; 猜测; 推断; 投机; 做投机买卖
speculate的现在分词

现在分词：speculating　

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 on the imponderables of the future.
  他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
• He'd been speculating in shares and lost a lot of money.
  他一直在做股票的投机生意，赔了许多钱。
• I don't really know what happened& I'm just speculating.
  我不清楚发生了什么&我只是在推测而已。
• Where possible you should explain why you the crisis has happened, but without speculating.
  可能的话，你解释危机发生的原因，但是不能猜测。
• Speculating on the property market has also long been a favoured sport for Hong Kong investors.
  长期以来，房地产市场投机也是香港投资者所钟爱的游戏。
• The project was unceremoniously dumped and Chinese investors went back to speculating in the domestic real estate market.
  这个项目以不体面的方式被叫停，而中国投资者又重回国内房地产市场进行投机。
• Consumers and experts have been speculating for years about the best time to shop online.
  多年来，消费者和专家们一直在思索和推测网购的最佳时机。
• So he spit in contempt on his father's speculating.
  因此他轻蔑的唾弃他父亲的投机行为。
• Traders make money by speculating on the rise and fall of share prices.
  股票交易者通过在股票价格的涨落中投机来赚钱。
• As the price curves have flattened for most commodities, the imports are for speculating in price increase.
  当大部分商品的价格曲线已经平缓的时候，用于投机的进口商品价格就会提高。