| 词汇 | predicating |
| 释义 | predicating present participle ofpredicate predicate verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈpred.ɪ.keɪt/ us /ˈpred.ɪ.keɪt/ to say that something is true: 断言，断定，肯定 [ + that ]It would be unwise to predicate that the disease is caused by a virus before further tests have been carried out.在进一步化验前就断言这种病由病毒引起是不明智的。 be predicated on something If an idea or argument is predicated on something, it depends on the existence or truth of this thing: 基于，取决于 The sales forecast is predicated on the assumption that the economy will grow by four percent.销售预测是基于经济将会增长4％这一假设之上的。 Announcing, informing & stating acquaint someone/yourself with something annunciation apprise someone of something avowedly awaken someone to something break disseminate impart on the recordidiom pass proclaim propagate propagative public put something before someone put something out put something out of its miseryidiom ring stake a claimidiom statement Examples of predicatingpredicating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The process of modification involves a modifier predicating itself of exactly the same event that the verb is predicated of. Predicating some predicate of a thing can be done in both asserted and unasserted contexts. She compares the three word classes in functional terms and assigns verbs a predicating and nouns a referent-introducing function. The t unvoices the possessive s and makes its sound less like a warm, fuzzy syntax word, and more like a predicating wannabe. A scrutiny of the so-called objects we coded in the syntax factor group suggests that many, if not most, have a predicating function. Necessity, by contrast, is not merely a meta-attribute but also a mode of predication, since necessity can be seen to govern the very act of predicating attributes of a subject. Compare, for example, the sign 'fall ' when referring to an animate referent and the same concept when predicating over an inanimate referent. He is predicating certain things about the middle or central area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is not predicating a real possibility. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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