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单词 presuppose
释义
presuppose
verb[T]
uk
/ˌpriː.səˈpəʊz/us
/ˌpriː.səˈpoʊz/
toacceptthat something istruebefore it has beenproved:
预先假定，推测
[+ that]You're presupposingthathe'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 anideaorsituationpresupposes something, that thing must betruefor theideaorsituationtowork:
以…为先决条件
Investigativejournalismpresupposes somelevelofinvestigation.调查报道要以一定程度的调查为前提。
[+ that]All this presupposesthathe'll get thejobhewants.所有这些都要以他能如愿找到工作为前提。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
  • approximate
  • as muchidiom
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • deem
  • draw
  • fall
  • guess
  • hazard
  • hypothesize
  • jump
  • jump to conclusionsidiom
  • mark
  • marksomeonedown assomething
  • misjudge
  • presume
  • presumptive
  • speculate
  • surmise
  • think ofsomething
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(Definition ofpresupposefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

presuppose| American Dictionary

presuppose
verb[T]
fml
us
/ˌpri·səˈpoʊz/
tothinkthat something istrueinadvancewithout having anyproof, or toconsiderthat something isnecessarilytrueif somethingelseistrue:
[+ that clause]You’re presupposing that he told her – but he may not have.
Teaching presupposes aformaleducation.
(Definition ofpresupposefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpresuppose

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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.
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Just governance presupposes the guidance of behavior, and the issuing of prohibitions is necessary for such guidance.
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We continue to use for a context of such assumptions, again presupposing that all variables labelling hypotheses in a judgment are distinct.
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The possibility of social control through law therefore presupposes a basic cognitive autonomy of the legal subject.
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There is no reason to think that the latter content cannot be asserted but can only be presupposed.
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Logically, of course, we cannot say everything's accidental: the concept of ' accident' presupposes a complementary class of ' non-accidents'.
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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.
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Our account presupposed that these contextual assumptions made phatic interpretations more relevant (and non-phatic assumptions less relevant) than they would otherwise have been.
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Furthermore, case assignment is presupposed several chapters before the crucial uninterpretable case features are introduced (281ff.).
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Rather, it presupposes the existence and the authority of such sentiments.
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More marked has come to mean ' less informative than ', or else ' accentuating ' (61) affirmative statements either by presupposing them or by correcting them.
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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.
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On the other hand, some thornier concepts are never explicitly introduced, but rather presupposed.
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No more ' free' lands remained; a situation had been created in which every fresh conquest presupposed wresting territory from its owner.
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Characteristics of persons and settings are, at best, indexically presupposed by the utterances deemed appropriate to them.
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