4周搞定2000+托福核心词
speculation = specul(看) + ation(表名词) = 仔细看->思索；推测
abbrevate = ab(表加强) + brev(短) + ate(表动词) = 缩写
accelerate = ac(使) + celer(快) + ate(表动词) = 加快
看准了→推测
speculate
常考释义
It has been speculated that, as the blowholes evolved and migrated to the top of the head, the neural pathways serving sense of smell may have been nearly all sacrificed.
有人推测，由于气孔经过进化被转移到了头顶，所以担负嗅觉功能的神经通路可能已经全部消失。
来源于：剑雅4-Test1vi. 推测；猜测；推断
Her account has so successfully converted imagination into reality that there is little room for the reader to speculate, question or wonder.
她的描述已成功地从想象变为现实，读者没有多少猜测、质疑或好奇的空间。
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家医院。
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。
Mr. Clinton refused to speculate on how long he might stay on as envoy.
克林顿先生拒绝猜测他可能会留任公使多长时间。
I wouldn't want to speculate at this time.
这次我不想妄加揣测。
来自《24小时 第8季第2集》
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vi. 投机；做投机买卖
Big farmers are moving in, not in order to farm, but in order to speculate with rising land prices.
大农场主迁入并不为耕种，而是抬高土地价格，做投机买卖。
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