If you speculate about something, you make guesses about its nature or identity, or about what might happen. 猜测
verb [vt. 及物动词] 猜测，推测；投机
It is useless to speculate why he did it. 对他为什么这么做妄加猜测毫无用处。
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speculate
v. 思索；投机（spec+ulate→看准了→思考， 投机）
specul(看) + ate → 用心看 → 推测
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- The banks made too many risky loans which now can't be repaid, and they speculated in property whose value has now dropped. 银行贷出了太多现在无法偿还的风险贷款，而且他们在房地产业做了投机买卖，其价值目前也已经下跌。
- It's tempting to speculate about what might have happened. 大家不禁猜测，到底发生了什么事。
- The doctors speculate that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage caused by a blow on the head. 医生们猜测他死于头部撞击引起的脑溢血。
- The president has gone out of his way to dismiss speculation over the future of the economy. 总统努力消除对未来经济的悲观估测。
- Critics of the project speculate about how many hospitals could be built instead. 该项目的批评者们则猜想这相当于可以建多少家医院。