HPTHINK something/HAVE A THOUGHTto think of a possible explanation for an event or fact 建立理论;从理论上说明SYN hypothesize
theorize that
Researchers theorize that there was once a common language for all humanity.
研究者提出一种理论,称人类曾使用同一种语言。
theorize about
They have been theorizing about what may have caused the fire.
他们一直在推测是什么造成了这场火灾。
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theorize• Those who theorize about how families work have an explanation that would apply to the Medlows.• Nowhere is this paradox more apparent than in the attempts of philosophers to theorize about the self.• But this, again, was theorizing in advance of the facts.• Such is Darwin's speciesorigintheorizing in mid-September 1838.• According to spy's theory, the Ardakkeans had been transformed - by some beneficialmutation, he theorized - into super-beings.• He theorizes other formersoldiers in the same situation may have died prematurely.• Officials theorize that the truckbottomed out, catching on the highway.• Rossignol and Phillis theorize that this pattern of caffeine use may reflect an unsuccessful attempt by the women to self-medicate with caffeine.