职场术语:speculate
padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);'helvetica neue', helvetica, 'hiragino sans gb', 'microsoft yahei', arial, sans-serif; max-width: 100%; word-wrap: break-word !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; color: rgb(62,62,62); clear: both; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">今天和大家讲个日常英语和商务英语中,意思差别很大的词:speculate
在日常英语中,大家都知道这个词表示“思考,思索”,比如:
This is the method that we have been speculating about.
这正是我们一直在思考的方法。
但是在商务英语中,它的意思却是“投机、买空卖空”,比如:
to speculate on the futures 搞期货投机生意
stocks speculate 股票投资
它的名词形式是speculation,比如:
speculation on foreign exchange 外汇投机
He made money in estate speculation.
他靠房地产投机发了财。