1·Several telescopes should contribute to this effort, but since no one knows what the stuff is, forecasting any sort of resolution is highly speculative.
一些望远镜应该会对这一努力的实现有所帮助，但是因为没人知道它究竟是什么，任何对结果的预测都是非常投机的行为。
2·There was a speculative element but it did not seem extreme because so few experts believed there was a housing bubble.
这其中有投机的成分，但看显得不算过分，因为只有那么少的专家确信房地产泡沫的存在。
3·These activities shift capital into projects that have little or no long-term value, such as speculative real-estate developments in the swamps of Florida.
这些行为将资本注入几乎没有价值或没有长期价值的项目，比如投机于在佛罗里达州沼泽地中开发的不动产。
4·Or are high prices simply a bubble, the result of speculative activity in the futures markets?
或者，高位物价只是泡沫，只是期货市场上投机活动的结果而已？
5·They didn't hear the part where I warned them that you couldn't sustain an incredible speculative frenzy on top of this stuff.
他们并没有听到我警告他们的那部分：您不能在这种东西上面维持惊人的投机狂热。
1·But now suppose we approach the question from a -i don't say from an empirical point of view but from a speculative anthropological point of view.
现在假设我们从一个特定角度来看这个问题，我不会说从一个经验主义的角度，而是从一个推测的人类学的角度来看。
2·But you may specify either of two extra arguments to a production to handle speculative parses.
不过，您可以向结果指定两个额外参数中的一个来处理推测性解析。
3·Detailed speculative planning.
详细的推测的计划。
4·He presents a series of speculative vignettes of life at various low-lying locations, from Miami to Venice to the Netherlands to Bangladesh, as the level of atmospheric CO2 and the oceans rise.
他针对大气中二氧化碳增加和海水升高，推出了一系列各低洼地区生活的推测性短文，从迈阿密到威尼斯到荷兰到孟加拉国。
5·The OED is a little speculative in its etymology but it certainly has more information for goal than for many other words.
尽管OED对goal的词根有一定推测成分，但它就这个词提供的信息肯定比不少其他单词丰富多了。
1·Even before the invention of the electric light bulb, the author produced a remarkable work of speculative fiction.
甚至在电灯泡发明之前，作者就创作了一部杰出的推理小说。
2·Test driven development, in the context of reusable frameworks, is seen as a way to design frameworks that are actually usable rather than simply speculative.
在可重用框架的场景下，通过测试驱动开发设计出的框架是真实可用的，而不是简单地推理。
3·The paper that Dr Wakefield co-wrote, published in the Lancet in 1998, was not greeted with widespread alarm: the study was speculative and small.
韦克非尔德医生同别人合著的文章于1998年发表在《柳叶刀》杂志上。这篇文章当时没有引起广泛的恐慌：此项研究结果由推理得出，而且范围很小。