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/ˌspekjəˈleɪʃən/ · /ˌspekjʊˈleɪʃən/
Speculation is when people guess about something, but they don't really know if it's true. It can be guessing why something happened, or guessing what might happen in the future. In money and business, speculation also means buying something (like stock, or land) because you hope its price will go up later, not because you plan to really use it — this way of buying is a bit risky.
臆測、揣測（金融上稱「投機」）
複數 speculations
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
speculationnoun/ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
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The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
- Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts.
- It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
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A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
- [N]ear the Age of Socrates lived their Great and Renowned Confutius, who began the ſame Deſign, of reclaiming Men from the uſeless and endleſs Speculations of Nature, to thoſe of Morality.
- To his speculations on these subjects he gave the lofty name of the "Oracles of Reason".
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businessfinanceAn investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
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The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.
- Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.
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A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
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obsoleteThe faculty of sight.
- Thou hast no speculation in those eyes.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteAn act of looking at something; examination, observation.
- [T]he expression of exultation and content on their animated faces, is one of my most delicious speculations.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。