speculator是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 投机商，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：
-- Bless us, what a number of gentlemen on horseback there were riding up and down, and how few of them wanted their horses held!A good city speculator or a parliamentary commissioner could have told to a fraction, from the crowds that were cantering about, what sum of money was realised in London, in the course of a year, by holding horses alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here a Polish speculator bought for half its value a magnificent estate from a young lady who lives in Nice.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But later, he'll probably hate to think that a speculator brought the news of a hero's death."
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