theorize

verb

1. 从理论上说明；形成理论；理论化
   to suggest facts and ideas to explain sth; to form a theory or theories about sth
   1. The study theorizes about the role of dreams in peoples' lives.
      这项研究从理论上说明了梦在人们生活中的作用。

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 theorise


1. VERB 从理论上说明;建立理论
   If you theorize that something is true or theorize about 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。

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。
3. It is very easy for us to speak and theorize about faith, but God often casts us into crucibles to try our gold, and to separate it from the dross and alloy.
   对别人讲说信心是很容易的事；但是，神常常将我们丢入坩埚里去提炼我们，要把贵金与劣金分别出来。
4. The researchers theorize that engagement plays a key role in weight loss because it offers an always-accessible network of support.
   研究人员推论，参与在减肥中起着关键性的作用，因为它提供了一个永远开放的网络支持。
5. Researchers theorize that the high-fat diet may change gene expression in the grandmothers in a way that somehow affects subsequent generations and leads to a greater breast cancer risk.
   研究者推理道：高脂饮食可能在某种程度上改变了祖母的基因表达，用某种方法影响了后代，并且会导致患乳癌的几率增加。
6. We can't allow ourselves to theorize about the development of city centers; Circumstances press us into making practical decisions.
   我们不能允许自己只从理论上说明城市中心的发展；形势逼我们做实际的决定。
7. As much as we try to calculate and theorize "chaos", it is still" chaos ".
   尽管我们不厌其烦地试图估算“混沌”并将其理论化，但它仍然是“混沌”一片。
8. They theorize that internal fat disrupts the body's communication systems.
   理论研究说内在脂肪会破坏人体各部分正常的联系系统。
9. But some researchers theorize females may experience a'tend-and-befriend'response as well, pumping out extra oxytocin and prolactin, hormones that enhance nurturing.
   但是，一些研究人员的理论称女性还可能会经历一种“照料+交友”的反应，产生大量的催产素和催乳激素。
10. Black oozes do not appear concerned with self-preservation, and some theorize they cannot feel pain.
    黑色淤泥似乎并不关心自我保护，一些人认为它们无法感觉到疼痛。
11. It is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data.
    在获得数据之前就进行理论阐述，这是一个严重的错误。
12. The sleeping brain, they theorize, is vastly capable of synthesizing complex information.
    他们形成的理论是睡眠的大脑对合成复杂信息具有非常强的能力。
13. Some researchers theorize that the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep is when the brain produces and consolidates neural networks for memory and cognition.
    一些研究人员提出，大脑在快速动眼睡眠期会产生并巩固形成记忆和认知的神经元。
14. For instance, if we find life life elsewhere and it has DNA, we can theorize that DNA is an absolutely necessary component of life.
    举个例子来说，如果我们在别处发现了生命，而它也有DNA，那么我们能产生这样的理论：DNA是生命所绝对必须的成分。
15. In this paper, we theorize how task and team familiarity interact with task and team coordination complexity to influence team performance.
    在此论文中，我们建立了理论，即任务和小组熟悉度如何与任务和小组协作复杂性相合去影响小组绩效。
16. This article briefly outlines the history of fashion clothes ad attempts to theorize the phenomenon of fashion in its social and cultural significance.
    在简要地勾勒时装历史的同时描述了对于时装时尚现象的社会和文化意义进行理论概括的种种尝试。
17. Dong Zhong-shu chiefly employed the method of analogy to systematize and theorize the Confucian theory of man is an integral part of nature in "chunqiu fanlu".
    摘要汉儒董仲舒在《春秋繁露》中，主要运用了类比论证的方式将儒家“天人合一”思想系统化、理论化。
18. Some researchers theorize that calcium must be taken during exercise to be most effective.
    一些研究人员认为，必须在运动期间摄入钙质才最有效。
19. They also theorize that exercise training improves immune function and reduces the inflammatory responses that can impact cancer development.
    他们还从理论上认为，体育锻炼能够提高免疫功能，减少在癌症发生中起重要作用的炎性反应。
20. It is unclear why thought speed affects mood, but Pronin and her colleagues theorize that our own expectations may be part of the equation.
    人们还不清楚为什么思考速度能影响心情，不过Pronin和她的同事提出的理论认为我们自身的期盼可能在整个过程中起到一定的作用。
21. Linguists theorize about the relationship between the structure of language and the ways in which language is used.
    语言学家把语言结构及语言运用方式做理论上的说明。
22. They theorize that colon tumors that developed in women who had used estrogen for many years may have been less susceptible to estrogen growth-slowing effects.
    他们推理为，使用雌激素多年的妇女患的结肠肿瘤可能对雌激素减缓生长的作用缺乏敏感。
23. Why do not archeologists theorize Hebrew or Egyptian linkages or influences in Mesoamerica?
    为什麽考古学家不将希伯来文或埃及文对古代中美洲的影响理论化？
24. Some theorize that angry natural forces inhabited the original black oozes, animating the contaminated waste of mining operations and using it to enact vengeance on the miners.
    有人推论说，愤怒的自然之力创造了最初的黑色淤泥，活生生的采矿作业的污染垃圾，并使用它来报复矿工们。
25. It's easy to theorize about what might have happened.
    对于可能发生的事作理论上的推测是很容易的。
26. The researchers theorize that depression might have some direct physiological impact on the heart-like causing it to work harder in the face of stress.
    研究人员推论说，抑郁症在生理上会直接影响到心脏。
27. The scientists theorize that the rhythmic movement, which produces a sensation similar to that of a vibrating cell phone but on a larger scale, exercises cells so they work better.
    科学家们推理，产生与手机振动相似但是更大规模感觉的有节奏运动锻炼细胞，因此它们更好地工作。
28. It's a little too early to theorize about motive.
    建立动机理论还为时尚早。
29. The researchers theorize that men may have a greater "genetic load" of MS genes, which may explain their findings.
    研究人员解释他们的发现，认为男性对于多发性硬化症的基因有着更大的遗传负荷。
30. All we can do is theorize about the reason for the change.
    我们唯一能做的就是从理论上推测一下变化的原因。

verb

1. form or construct theories
   1. he thinks and theorizes all day

2. construct a theory about
   1. Galileo theorized the motion of the stars

3. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
   1. Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

   Synonym:    speculatetheoriseconjecturehypothesizehypothesisehypothecatesuppose