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

• Researchers theorized that women are choosing quality-of-life benefits like flexible schedules and not being on call during certain hours, rather than higher pay, when negotiating starting salary.
  研究人员推测，在薪酬谈判中，女性更看重生活质量而不是高薪水，从而选择更为灵活的工作时间，某些时间段她们也不会接受工作要求。
• 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。
• They theorized that if we actually see more, due to slow slowed time, in the midst of disaster, then subjects should be real able to read the numbers.
  他们理论道，如果我们真的因为灾难中变慢的时间看到更多，那么这些被测试者应该可以读出那些数字。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。