詞彙精選：speculate的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

[peculate (about/on sth)]猜測，推斷，推測 [I]

例句：

He did not speculate on who would get the prize.

他沒有去猜測誰將得獎。

例句：

He began to speculate about the future.

他開始思索未來。

投機，做投機買賣 [I]

例句：

He likes to speculate on the stock market.

他喜歡炒股。

例句：

It's dangerous to speculate.

做投機買賣是很危險的。

二、詞義辨析：

think,deliberate,meditate,muse,reason,reflect,speculate

這些動詞均有“思考、判斷、思索”之意。think一般用詞，指開動腦筋形成看法或得出結論的腦力活動。不着重結論是否正確，見解是否有用。deliberate指緩慢、按部就班地作仔細而認真的思考或判斷。meditate語氣較強，指認真地長時間集中精力進行思考。muse通常指漫無目的地猜想。reason指根據資料、證據或事實進行推斷，作出結論或判斷的邏輯思維活動。reflect指回想或回顧，側重認真而冷靜地反覆地思考某個問題，尤指對已發生事情的思索。 speculate指推論過程，隱含在證據不足的基礎上作出推測或設想。

三、參考例句：

He began to speculate about the future.

他開始思索未來。

He began to speculate about the future.

他開始思索未來。

He did not speculate on who would get the prize.

他沒有猜測誰能得獎。

I can only speculate that he left willingly.

我看他一定是自願走的。

He likes to speculate on the stock market.

他喜歡炒股。

It's always hard to speculate about the future.

想要預測未來總是非常困難。

Would you speculate on the President's energy policy?

可否請你推測一下總統的能源政策？

The more people who speculate, the better. The more human-to-human connections, the better.

如果更多的人進行思索，更多的人能夠互相溝通，這無疑更好。

I wouldn't like to speculate on the reasons for her resignation.

我不願意猜測她辭職的原因.

This detective story is boring, because you can speculate the ending in the beginning.

這個偵探故事很沒意思，因爲剛開始看你能推測出它的結局。