speculate congenial agreeable profiteer seize a chance to seek private gain be opportunistic seize every chance to gain advantage by tricky
The president insisted that he was acting out of compassion, not opportunism.
总统坚持说他如此做是出于同情而不是为了投机。
—— 柯林斯例句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。
—— 柯林斯例句They asked that he return to day trading.
他们请求他回来继续做当日买卖股票的投机交易。
—— 柯林斯例句He´d been speculating in shares and lost a lot of money.
他一直在做股票的投机生意,赔了许多钱。
—— 给力词典精选The boss has put all his money into that speculative enterprise.
这个老板把他的全部财产都投到那个投机事业中。
—— 给力词典精选