presupposing
present participle ofpresuppose
| 单词 | presupposing |
| 释义 | presupposing present participle ofpresuppose presuppose verb[T] uk/ˌpriː.səˈpəʊz/us/ˌpriː.səˈpoʊz/toacceptthat something istruebefore it has beenproved: [+ that]You're presupposingthathe'll have told her - but he may not have. formal If anideaorsituationpresupposes something, that thing must betruefor theideaorsituationtowork: Investigativejournalismpresupposes somelevelofinvestigation. [+ that]All this presupposesthathe'll get thejobhewants. Guessing, supposing and suspecting
Examplesofpresupposingpresupposing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. More marked has come to mean ' less informative than ', or else ' accentuating ' (61) affirmative statements either bypresupposingthem or by correcting them. From theCambridge English Corpus We continue to use for a context of such assumptions, againpresupposingthat all variables labelling hypotheses in a judgment are distinct. From theCambridge English Corpus Presupposinga market largely made up of business users makes the task a little easier. From theCambridge English Corpus In this case, the reputation argument attempts to establish present optimality bypresupposingfuture optimality. From theCambridge English Corpus That being so, it is obvious that one cannot do grammar withoutpresupposingboth semantic structures and phonetic material. From theCambridge English Corpus Because of the overall small numbers, the zero anaphors were counted with the pronouns and represent the ' morepresupposing' referential expressions. From theCambridge English Corpus There is no way to establish the primacy of certain rules of validation withoutpresupposingthe privilege of the system to which they belong. From theCambridge English Corpus It is the very characteristics of research that it continually changes goals rather thanpresupposingthem, all claims to the contrary notwithstanding. From theCambridge English Corpus Standards may then be defended not aspresupposingautonomy and thereby justifying it, but as its gift. From theCambridge English Corpus Deviation from normality is shown to be less important by comparing predictions of the infinitesimal model with a modelpresupposingnormality. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead ofpresupposinglanguage and analyzing institutions, we have to analyze the role of language in the constitution of institutions. From theCambridge English Corpus In the case of apresupposingindex, it is necessary for the par ticipants to recognize its indexical force and respond accordingly. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, it was noted whether the protagonist was introduced with or without the childpresupposingknowledge of his existence on the part of the listener. From theCambridge English Corpus Presupposingsuch a plan, an adaptive system should be able to recognise certain plans. From theCambridge English Corpus The emphasis on form in our coding scheme was intended to avoidpresupposingthat utterances had a particular meaning associated with them. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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