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 effect was so pervasive that researchers theorized the discrimination must be governed by unconscious cultural biases rather than overt sexism.
  这样的情况非常普遍，因此研究人员推测，这种歧视肯定来自于无意识的文化偏见，而不是公开的性别歧视。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Higgs boson is the only particle theorized by the standard model of physics that hasn't been conclusively observed in an experiment.
  希格斯波色子是唯一一种经物理学标准模型推理但还未在实验中确凿观察到的粒子。
• 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。
• Nancy and I next theorized that the chicken had escaped from a live-poultry market about four blocks away and was on the run.
  南希和我接着怀疑它是从一个大约四栋楼远的活禽市场跑出来的，而且还在继续逃命。
• 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。
• 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。