【例】The IMF is encouraging people to speculate with other people’s money.國際貨幣基金組織鼓勵人們用別人的錢做投機買賣。
【同義替換】ponder, reflect; guess, conjecture, assume
【派生】speculative a.思索的;投機的 speculation n.思索,投機
【真題】But Dr. Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big picture was leading decision makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with.
【真題】Hofstadter says our country’s educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”
【例】Moreover, to Hitler’s mind the sparse applause did not do justice to the brilliant performance.此外,希特勒認為,這樣精彩的演出只博得稀稀拉拉的掌聲是不公平的。
【同義替換】bright, intelligent, outstanding
【派生】brilliantly ad.輝煌地,燦爛地
【例】The changes that have taken place in air travel during the last sixty years would have seemed completely impossible to even the most brilliant scientist at the turn of the 19th century.