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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sarah Rosner Preis, ScD, MPH, and colleagues theorized that upper-body fat, as measured by neck circumference, also raises heart risk.
  科学博士，公共卫生学硕士SarahRosnerPreis和她的同事建立这样的理论：上身脂肪（通过测量颈部周径判断，）也增加心脏风险。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。