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

• He's speculating in stocks and lost a lot of money.
  他在炒股，亏了不少钱。
• Do you confuse speculating with investing?
  你是否混同了投机和投资？
• 'We don't know the answer to that.' — 'Exactly — so shut up and stop speculating.'
  “我们不知道那个问题的答案。”——“就是——那就闭嘴，别瞎猜。”
• He has been charged with speculating in foreign currency.
  他被指控进行外币投机买卖。
• They are speculating on the imponderables of the future.
  他们猜测着未来难以预见的事情。
• He made his money speculating on the London gold and silver markets.
  他在伦敦黄金市场和白银市场上进行投机买卖。
• 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。
• Speculating in commodities is done primarily on a commodities exchange.
  商品投机主要是在商品交易所里进行的。
• Pandit also told the audience he supported the so-called Volcker rule, which would restrict banks from speculating on stocks and bonds with their own capital.
  潘伟迪还告诉读者们，他支持所谓的沃尔克法则（Volckerrule），这项法则将限制银行以自有资金对股票和债券进行投机。
• 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。