theorized

英 [ˈθɪəraɪzd]

美 [ˈθiːəraɪzd]

v.  从理论上说明; 形成理论; 理论化
theorize的过去分词和过去式

COCA.42897

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 theorise


• VERB 从理论上说明;建立理论
  If youtheorizethat something is true ortheorizeabout it, you develop an abstract idea or set of ideas about something in order to explain it.
  1. Police are theorizing that the killers may be posing as hitchhikers...
     警方推测那些杀手可能会假装成搭便车的人。
  2. By studying the way people behave, we can theorize about what is going on in their mind.
     通过研究人们的行为方式，我们可以从中推断他们内心的想法。

双语例句

• A black hole is a theorized celestial body.
  黑洞是一种理论上推测出的天体。
• Nancy and I next theorized that the chicken had escaped from a live-poultry market about four blocks away and was on the run.
  南希和我接着怀疑它是从一个大约四栋楼远的活禽市场跑出来的，而且还在继续逃命。
• Darwin theorized that the appendix in humans and other primates was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which was used by now-extinct ancestors for digesting food.
  达尔文关于人体以及其他灵长类动物体内阑尾的理论认为阑尾是生物进化过程中盲肠残存的部分，盲肠是这些动物已经灭绝的祖先的消化器官。
• Statistically, the position of an atom can be theorized, but no one knows where any given atom is at any given time.
  统计上来说，一个原子的位置可以被理论化，但没有人知道任何既定原子在任何既定时间位于何处。
• The effect was so pervasive that researchers theorized the discrimination must be governed by unconscious cultural biases rather than overt sexism.
  这样的情况非常普遍，因此研究人员推测，这种歧视肯定来自于无意识的文化偏见，而不是公开的性别歧视。
• For decades, neuroscientists have theorized that the brain "time stamps" events as they happen, allowing us to keep track of where we are in time and when past events occurred.
  数十年来，神经学科的科学家在理论上推测人类的大脑中有一部分细胞可以为在大脑中为我们日常发生的事件打上“时间标签”，这样我们可以及时回想起过去发生事情的时间。
• In the case of the Milky Way, astronomers detected a huge, hot gas halo, or corona, that could be as much as100,000 light-years across, much bigger than earlier scientists theorized.
  以银河系为例，天文学家检测到一个巨大的热气日冕，它横跨10万光年，比先前科学家的理论推测要大许多。
• It is not known what caused their sudden spread, but experts have theorized that an increase in global travel and the banning of certain pesticides may be partly responsible.
  至今它们大肆传播的确切原因不得而知，但专家表示，可能的因素包括全球旅行的增加和某些杀虫剂的禁用。
• As Greek philosopher Epictetus once theorized, We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.
  希腊哲学家爱比克泰德曾将此理论化，我们有两只耳朵一张嘴，是为了让倾听达到讲话的两倍之多。
• This link has been theorized ever since the first silent movie hero slugged the first silent movie villain.
  早在第一位默片英雄击打（教训）第一个默片坏蛋时，这种关联就被理论化了。