theorized

英 [ˈθɪəraɪzd]

美 [ˈθiːəraɪzd]

v.  从理论上说明; 形成理论; 理论化
theorize的过去分词和过去式

COCA.42897

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 theorise


• VERB 从理论上说明;建立理论
  If youtheorizethat something is true ortheorizeabout it, you develop an abstract idea or set of ideas about something in order to explain it.
  1. Police are theorizing that the killers may be posing as hitchhikers...
     警方推测那些杀手可能会假装成搭便车的人。
  2. By studying the way people behave, we can theorize about what is going on in their mind.
     通过研究人们的行为方式，我们可以从中推断他们内心的想法。

双语例句

• He theorized that "one of the possible source of water is a comet."
  他的理论认为，“对水的源头之一，是彗星。”
• The authors theorized that exposure to post-1918 H1N1 human flu viruses had primed the oldest subjects 'immune system to recognize the novel H1N1.
  作者从理论上推测，老年受试者具有1918后H1N1人流感病毒的暴露史，使得这些老年人的免疫系统能够识别新型H1N1病毒。
• In the case of the Milky Way, astronomers detected a huge, hot gas halo, or corona, that could be as much as100,000 light-years across, much bigger than earlier scientists theorized.
  以银河系为例，天文学家检测到一个巨大的热气日冕，它横跨10万光年，比先前科学家的理论推测要大许多。
• A black hole is a theorized celestial body.
  黑洞是一种理论上推测出的天体。
• They also theorized that the city couldn't possibly be inhabited by life as we know it.
  他们还猜测，城市不可能被生活居住我们所知道的。
• It has been theorized that a prenatal hormonal imbalance may predispose individuals to the disorder.
  从理论上讲，父母亲性激素不平衡可能为孩子的病症留下根源。
• It is not known what caused their sudden spread, but experts have theorized that an increase in global travel and the banning of certain pesticides may be partly responsible.
  至今它们大肆传播的确切原因不得而知，但专家表示，可能的因素包括全球旅行的增加和某些杀虫剂的禁用。
• He theorized that there are possible answers to whether there is extraterrestrial life.
  另外他还推理了对于是否存在外星生命的可能回答。
• As Greek philosopher Epictetus once theorized, We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.
  希腊哲学家爱比克泰德曾将此理论化，我们有两只耳朵一张嘴，是为了让倾听达到讲话的两倍之多。
• Statistically, the position of an atom can be theorized, but no one knows where any given atom is at any given time.
  统计上来说，一个原子的位置可以被理论化，但没有人知道任何既定原子在任何既定时间位于何处。