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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Darwin theorized that the appendix in humans and other primates was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which was used by now-extinct ancestors for digesting food.
  达尔文关于人体以及其他灵长类动物体内阑尾的理论认为阑尾是生物进化过程中盲肠残存的部分，盲肠是这些动物已经灭绝的祖先的消化器官。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。