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

• 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。
• 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。
• The geologist theorized brilliantly about the age of the earth.
  这地质学家出色地导出有关地球年龄。
• 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。
• Media Equation, established by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass after 10 years hardworking, is theorized from study on relationship between human and media.
  媒体等同是美国学者巴伦·李维斯和克利夫·纳斯对媒体与人的关系经过十年研究得出的结论。
• 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 few weeks before the European discovery earlier this month, a scientific paper in the journal Astrobiology theorized a few days that red dwarf stars were good candidates.
  在这个月早些时候欧洲的发现之前数周，在《天体生物学》杂志一份科学报告几天时间内都在对红侏儒星是好的候选这一观点建立起理论。
• Researchers have theorized that sleep may restore some chemical that is drained during periods of wakefulness.
  一些研究人员提出的理论认为，睡眠可以恢复人在不睡觉时失去的某些化学物质。
• This link has been theorized ever since the first silent movie hero slugged the first silent movie villain.
  早在第一位默片英雄击打（教训）第一个默片坏蛋时，这种关联就被理论化了。
• Black holes have captivated astronomers and science fiction fans alike since they were first theorized in the18th Century.
  自从18世纪黑洞理论提出以来，吸引了许多天文学家和相关课题的科学迷们。