speculate  /sp'ɛkjəl,et/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  speculate
  (vi.)深思,推測,投機

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Speculate \Spec"u*late\, v. t.
     To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a
     thing. [R.] --Sir W. Hamilton.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Speculate \Spec"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Speculated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Speculating}.] [L. speculatus, p. p. of
     speculari to spy out, observe, fr. specula a lookout, fr.
     specere to look. See {Spy}.]
     1. To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing
        it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to
        contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in
        religion; to speculate on political events.
  
              It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most
              boldly often conform with the most pefect quietude
              to the external regulations of society. --Hawthorne.
  
     2. (Philos.) To view subjects from certain premises given or
        assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
  
     3. (Com.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent
        advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; --
        often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or
        hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in
        sugar, or in bank stock.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  speculate
       v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
            "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in
            swamps" [syn: {theorize}, {theorise}, {conjecture}, {hypothesize},
             {hypothesise}, {hypothecate}, {suppose}]
       2: talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way
          and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason
          to reach a conclusion; "We were speculating whether the
          President had to resign after the scandal"
       3: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of
          the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the
          question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist
          must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: {chew
          over}, {think over}, {meditate}, {ponder}, {excogitate}, {contemplate},
           {muse}, {reflect}, {mull}, {mull over}, {ruminate}]
       4: invest at a risk; "I bought this house not because I want to
          live in it but to sell it later at a good price, so I am
          speculating" [syn: {job}]

資料來源(5): Internet Dictionary Project [english-french]

  speculate
  	s'interroger, speculer, conjecturer[Verb]