| 词汇 | presuppose |
| 释义 | presuppose verb[ T ] uk /ˌpriː.səˈpəʊz/ us /ˌpriː.səˈpoʊz/ to accept that something is true before it has been proved: 预先假定，推测 [ + that ]You're presupposing that he'll have told her - but he may not have.你是在推测他早已告诉她了——但他可能没有这样做。 formal If an idea or situation presupposes something, that thing must be true for the idea or situation to work: 以…为先决条件 Investigative journalism presupposes some level of investigation.调查报道要以一定程度的调查为前提。 [ + that ]All this presupposes that he'll get the job he wants.所有这些都要以他能如愿找到工作为前提。 Guessing, supposing and suspecting approximate as muchidiom call conjecture consider deem fall guess jump jump to conclusionsidiom mark mark someone down as something misjudge misjudgment pluck speculate supposably surmise think of something unguessable presuppose | American Dictionarypresuppose verb[ T ] fmlus/ˌpri·səˈpoʊz/ to think that something is true in advance without having any proof, or to consider that something is necessarily true if something else is true: [ + that clause ]You’re presupposing that he told her – but he may not have. Teaching presupposes a formal education. Examples of presupposepresuppose Obviously, the original argument presupposes a highly skewed distribution of size, which requires a large number of weak countries to flock together against a villain. Just governance presupposes the guidance of behavior, and the issuing of prohibitions is necessary for such guidance. We continue to use for a context of such assumptions, again presupposing that all variables labelling hypotheses in a judgment are distinct. The possibility of social control through law therefore presupposes a basic cognitive autonomy of the legal subject. There is no reason to think that the latter content cannot be asserted but can only be presupposed. Logically, of course, we cannot say everything's accidental: the concept of ' accident' presupposes a complementary class of ' non-accidents'. They attach implausible conditions and interpretations to claims in this area - for example that a coming-to-be presupposes a pre-existing domain within which the coming-to-be occurs. Our account presupposed that these contextual assumptions made phatic interpretations more relevant (and non-phatic assumptions less relevant) than they would otherwise have been. Furthermore, case assignment is presupposed several chapters before the crucial uninterpretable case features are introduced (281ff.). Rather, it presupposes the existence and the authority of such sentiments. More marked has come to mean ' less informative than ', or else ' accentuating ' (61) affirmative statements either by presupposing them or by correcting them. The unusual constituents are pernicious from a point of view upholding the concept of rigid/stereotypical syntactic constituency often presupposed by traditional theories of syntax. On the other hand, some thornier concepts are never explicitly introduced, but rather presupposed. No more ' free' lands remained; a situation had been created in which every fresh conquest presupposed wresting territory from its owner. Characteristics of persons and settings are, at best, indexically presupposed by the utterances deemed appropriate to them. See all examples of presuppose 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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