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。”
• Based on earlier finds, scientists had theorized the species had a relatively large brain.
  根据之前的研究，科学家们推断这种动物应该拥有相对大的大脑。
• We found a lot of what we had theorized there in the data.
  通过对数据进行推论，我们发现了大量的这些特点。
• 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。
• Compact disc and DVD players use lasers, which Einstein first theorized in1917 in advancing his work on the photoelectric and photovoltaic effects.
  光盘和DVD播放机利用了激光，而爱因斯坦1917年在推出其有关光电效应和光生伏打效应的研究成果时，最先提出了这方面的理论。
• He also theorized that there is a female element in the unconscious of men the anima and a male element in the unconscious of women the animus.
  他也把女性意识组成里有男性成分和男性意识组成里有女性态度。
• 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。
• Scientists had previously theorized that, except for the possibility of ice at the bottom of craters, the moon was totally dry.
  科学家以前的理论认为，除了冰在火山口底部的可能性，月亮完全干燥。
• 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。