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

• Speculating with borrowed money is inherently risky and riskier the more complex and interconnected are the assets.
  用借来的钱投机本身就颇具风险而资产越复杂，互相关联度越高，风险就越大。
• He has been charged with speculating in foreign currency.
  他被指控进行外币投机买卖。
• Some people abroad have been speculating about which faction I belong to.
  国际上一些人在猜测我是哪一派。
• Speculating on the property market has also long been a favoured sport for Hong Kong investors.
  长期以来，房地产市场投机也是香港投资者所钟爱的游戏。
• '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。”
• Do you confuse speculating with investing?
  你是否混同了投机和投资？
• 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。
• The press is speculating that he may resign before christmas.
  新闻界推测他可能会在圣诞节前辞职。
• The project was unceremoniously dumped and Chinese investors went back to speculating in the domestic real estate market.
  这个项目以不体面的方式被叫停，而中国投资者又重回国内房地产市场进行投机。
• He made a fortune speculating in tin shares, and lost almost all of it in cocoa futures.
  他做锡投票的投机生意发了财，在做可可的期货交易时又几乎赔个精光。