speculation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 推测， 投机，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I have entered upon a speculation which has proved a baffler; and a Being of brightness and beauty will be offered up a sacrifice at Cheggs's altar.
-- Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale.
-- It happened that at that moment the lady of the caravan had her cup (which, that everything about her might be of a stout and comfortable kind, was a breakfast cup) to her lips, and that having her eyes lifted to the sky in her enjoyment of the full flavour of the tea, not unmingled possibly with just the slightest dash or gleam of something out of the suspicious bottle but this is mere speculation and not distinct matter of history it happened that being thus agreeably engaged, she did not see the travellers when they first came up.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After five minutes, during which his mind had travelled into a remote speculation of social conditions of the future, and lost itself at last over the time dimension, Dr. Kemp roused himself with a sigh, pulled down the window again, and returned to his writing desk.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Malthus was a well-known capitalist, who had made his money by speculation in railway shares.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perched on a cloud, watching them, was the divine Tubbs, a glory of whiskers, ready to blast any of the little men who stopped being earnest and wasted time on speculation about anything which he had not assigned to them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These werefew enough, to be sure; but as we always fell back upon Blood, shehad as wide a field for abstract speculation as her nephew himself.
-- I replied, with all due deference to his experience (butwith more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), thatperhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court,containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects withinthe immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries,should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose,leased by the registrars for their own private emolument, unsafe,not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the importantdocuments it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, amercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees fromthe public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow andanywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.
-- Sometimes, the speculation came into my thoughts, What mighthave happened, or what would have happened, if Dora and I hadnever known each other?
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the rest, in speculation at least, was perfectly smooth.
-- Could a linguist, could a grammarian, could even a mathematician have seen what she did, have witnessed their appearance together, and 406 Emmaheard their history of it, without feeling that circumstanc-es had been at work to make them peculiarly interesting to each other? How much more must an imaginist, like her-self, be on fire with speculation and foresight! especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made.
-- It was also a very early speculation with Emma.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was some speculation at the dinner-table about the Time Traveller's absence, and I suggested time travelling, in a half-jocular spirit.
-- This, I must remind you, was my speculation at the time.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the Sorrows of Wert-er, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and as-tonishment.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mysterious event caused much speculation at the church on the following Sunday.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How, having often found two exactly similar names, even belonging to the same place, to involve no traceable consanguinity, near or distant, he did not at first give much heed to this, except in the way of speculation as to what a surprising change would be made in the condition of a little seamstress, if she could be shown to have any interest in so large a property.
-- I proposed to borrow of Mr Rugg (or of Miss Rugg; it's the same thing; she made a little money by a speculation in the Common Pleas once).
-- Mr Dorrit, yielding to the vast speculation how the poor creatures were to get on without him, was great, and sad, but not absorbed.
-- At length Lord Decimus, with a coffee-cup in his hand, began to hover about among the pictures, and to cause an interesting speculation to arise in all minds as to the probabilities of his ceasing to hover, and enabling the smaller birds to flutter up-stairs; which could not be done until he had urged his noble pinions in that direction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the other two were impressed with a similar presentiment; and as their blood, like his, had all gone down again; some speculation ensued upon the cause of this sudden change in their temperament.
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