theorize

英 ['θɪəraɪz] 美 ['θiːəraɪz]

• v. 推理；建立理论；理论化
• =theorise.

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 推理
2. （使）理论化
3. 建立理论
4. 创立学说
5. 作理论上讨论
6. 推论说
7. 从理论上说明

英英释义

Verb:

1. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;

   "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
   

2. construct a theory about;

   "Galileo theorized the motion of the stars"
   

3. form or construct theories;

   "he thinks and theorizes all day"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
   在未掌握数据之前就加以推测,那是最大的错误。

经典引文

• He did not theorize without regard to facts and experience.

  出自： R. Jebb

• It is always easier to theorise about these things than actually to go out and do them.

  出自：Marketing

近反义词

【近义词】

• speculate 推测
• hypothesize 假设
• conjecture 推测
• imagine 想像
• conceive 设想
• posit 假定
• put forward 提出
• think 认为
• hypothesise 假设
• hypothecate 假定
• theorise 建立理论
• suppose 假设