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单词 posit
释义
posit
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈpɒz.ɪt/us
/ˈpɑː.zɪt/
tosuggestsomething as abasicfactorprinciplefrom which afurtherideaisformedordeveloped:
假想，设想
[+ that]If we positthatwagerisescauseinflation, itfollowsthat we shouldtrytominimizethem.如果我们假设工资上涨会导致通货膨胀的话，那么我们应该尽可能地减小工资上涨幅度。
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(Definition ofpositfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofposit

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However, there is a sharp distinction between the mechanisms posited by repression and the processes thought to underlie ordinary forgetting.
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He posited four basic plans of organization in the animal kingdom - vertebrate, articulate, mollusk, and radiate - with no transitions between plans.
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To be consistent with our own viewpoint, we have then topositthat early visual processing involves neither representation nor computation.
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The rules of the language, including the words, are posited to be precisely what the processing system uses in constructing mappings between sound and meaning.
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These authors reasoned that the separate processing routes posited by dual route theory should be localized in different brain regions.
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So he is compelled topositthat embedding came along at an evolutionarily later period.
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It constitutes a precedent, and toposita similar movement in other forms of seasonality cannot be dismissed as unreasonable.
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In this framework, utterances contribute to the specification of interaction structures in that they "positvalues or request that values be posited" (132).
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The direct appeal to semantics does not necessitate positing separate production and comprehension grammars.
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The need topositthis generalization is further evidence in support of a movement analysis of these constructions.
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One more radical attribute of consciousness may also be posited, as a consequence of operation within this expanded conceptual framework.
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One might have thought that it is necessary toposita parameter governing whether complements precede or follow their heads in a given language.
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Political competition is posited to reduce corruption in two additional ways.
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This, he posits, cannot survive because of internal contradictions and external pressure for change.
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The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
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