speculator

noun

1. 投机商；投机倒把者
   a person who buys and sells goods or shares in a company in the hope of making a profit
   1. property speculators
      房地产投机商

1. 投机者;投机商
   A speculator is a person who speculates financially.

1. By his own admission, he evaded taxes as a Florida real-estate speculator
   他亲口承认自己在佛罗里达从事房地产投机生意时逃过税。
2. He was a sinister and crafty speculator.
   他是一个险诈的投机商。
3. Or take the late Sir John Templeton, who grew up the son of a country lawyer in Winchester, Tenn. Templeton's father also was a speculator, trading cotton futures.
   再来看看已故投资大师约翰·邓普顿爵士（SirJohnTempleton）。邓普顿的父亲是田纳西州温切斯特（Winchester）的乡村律师，也是一名投机者，做棉花期货交易。
4. Graham's widowed mother was a small-time speculator; she was wiped out during the Panic of 1907, when he was 13 years old.
   格雷厄姆寡居的母亲是个小投机者，在1907年大恐慌（Panicof1907）中赔得一干二。当时格雷厄姆年仅13岁。
5. Even rivals say that rather than being a speculator he is in fact the ultimate analyst, one who believes in thorough research.
   就连对手也说，他实际上不是投机者，而是信奉周密调研的“终极分析师”。
6. I wrote a piece on the new financial capitalism just before the crisis broke. v In this I argued that we have today the triumph of the global over the local, of the speculator over the manager and of the financier over the producer.
   就在此次金融危机爆发前，我撰写了一篇关于新金融资本主义的文章。我在文中提出，现在我们见证了全球对地方、投机者对管理者、乃至金融家对制造商的胜利。
7. We can burn the currency speculator, but the investor in need of cash to cover positions elsewhere has turned to our highly-liquid market to find it.
   我们当然可以使货币投机者碰个焦头烂额，但需要现金在其他地方补仓的投资者，已经转向本港这个资金流动性十分高的市场，寻找资金。
8. For sure there are lots of short term speculator in real estate market.
   可以确定，现在的房地产市场中有大量的短期投资者。
9. Would you prefer to be remembered as a philosopher than as a successful speculator or philanthropist?
   你是否比较向往被人称为哲学家，而不是成功的投机家或者慈善主义者？
10. He writes that his first book, The Alchemy of Finance, was dismissed by many critics as the self-indulgence of a successful speculator.
    他的第一本书《金融炼金术》被许多评论家斥责为一个成功的投机商的自我放纵。
11. Many speculator mad money during the decline of the stock market by fishing in troubled waters.
    在股票行情看跌期间，许多投机商混水摸鱼，从中获利。
12. Casey's definition of a speculator is not a gambler or a trader, but rather someone who capitalizes on politically caused distortions in the marketplace, and he's expecting a lot of them.
    对投机者的理解即不是赌徒，也不是交易家，而宁可理解为一些可以利用政治导致市场发生扭曲的人。而且他正期望市场发生大量畸形。
13. He is speculator who hold up customers.
    他是个向顾客索取高价的投机商人。
14. In this crisis, only government, acting as a stabilising speculator, can take the necessary long-term perspective.
    在这场危机中，只有充当起稳定作用的投机者的政府才能具备必需的长期视角。
15. He is a speculator who takes big risks on the stock market.
    他是一个在股票市场上冒着很大风险的投机者。
16. George Soros, the billionaire investor, recently testified to us congressmen that he believed a speculator bubble was perched atop the fundamental supply and demand reasons for the recent surge in prices.
    亿万富翁投资商乔治索罗斯（georgesoros）最近在美国国会作证时表示，他认为在最近的油价飙升中，投机泡沫多于基本面供需因素。
17. In contrast to the speculator's preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.
    跟投机者全神贯注于迅速获利不同，价值投资者开宗明义通过努力避免亏损以规避风险。
18. An affluent banker; a speculator flush with cash; not merely rich but loaded; moneyed aristocrats; wealthy corporations.
    富有的银行家；有大量现金的投机家；不仅仅是有钱而是很富有；富有贵族；富有的公司。
19. Volatility is good if you are a speculator, but it makes it extremely difficult to manage a business.
    如果你是个投机者，波动是件好事，但要管理一家企业，这会使事情变得极其困难。
20. Losses make the speculator studious& not profits.
    赔钱不能赢利，但能使投机者细心钻研。
21. The stake was large, and Harkness was a daring speculator.
    赌注不小，而哈克尼斯又是一个大胆的投机家。
22. A speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets.
    在股票或日用品市场上侵略地交易的投资者。
23. Ms Ulrich recalled a recent visit to Sanya, a Chinese resort city in the grip of a property frenzy, where a speculator advised her that we Chinese buy the rise and sell the fall.
    李晶回忆道，最近她访问了三亚，这个中国旅游城市正陷于楼市狂热，一名投机者告诉她：我们中国人买涨杀跌。
24. In spite of youth and wealth and a notable vigor of body, was a solemn, conservative speculator as to what his future might be.
    他虽然年轻、富有、精力充沛，对于他自己的前途却是一个严肃、保守的观察者。
25. The surge, he told the financial times then, was not a bubble nor, he insisted, was he a speculator.
    他当时告诉英国《金融时报》，这轮大涨不是泡沫，他也不是投机商。
26. We have, instead the triumph of the global over the local, of the speculator over the manager and of the financier over the producer.
    在另一方面，我们见证了全球对地方、投机者对管理者、乃至金融家对制造商的胜利。
27. Against them must be set the great American faith in betterment that warmed writer and land speculator alike.
    不过与此相对的，是美国雄心勃勃的进取心，这种信心使作家和土地投机商同样感到鼓舞。
28. His case is finance by speculator who hope to profit from his victory.
    他打这场官司是由那些期望从他的胜诉中获益的投机者们资助的。
29. When the economy is in turmoil, no one is demonised more than the speculator.
    经济动荡之时，投机者是最经常被妖魔化的人。
30. The speculator specifically specified the specification of this species specimen.
    投机者特地指定了这种物种标本的规范。

noun

1. someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains

   Synonym:    plunger

2. someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts