presuppose
- vt. 假定；预料；以……为先决条件
[ 第三人称单数 presupposes 现在分词 presupposing 过去式 presupposed 过去分词 presupposed ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
presuppose /ˌpriːsəˈpəʊz/ TEM8 ( presupposing, presupposed, presupposes )
-
1.
V-T If one thing presupposes another, the first thing cannot be true or exist unless the second thing is true or exists. 以...为前提; 以...为先决条件; 预先假定
例：All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man.
你的所有论点都预先假定他是个理性聪明的人。
例：The end of an era presupposes the start of another.
一个时代的结束是以另一个时代开始为前提的。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
-
All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man.
你的所有论点都预先假定他是个理性聪明的人。
-
Teachers sometimes presuppose a fairly high level of knowledge by the students.
教师有时候假定学生的知识水平相当高。
-
Critics seem to presuppose that great literature must be somehow burdensome to the reader; it must be difficult for the uninitiated to understand.
评论家们似乎预设伟大的文学作品对读者来说一定是某种负担；外行人一定很难理解。
-
It does not presuppose any background in philosophy.
不假设你们之前学过任何哲学。
-
It doesn't presuppose any background in philosophy.
它并不需要任何哲学基础。
-
Rather they presuppose relations that is to say political relations not between lovers or even best friends of some kind but between civic partners who may in fact be intensely rivalrous and competitive with one another for positions of political office and honor.
相反地，他们假设的关系,确切地说是政治关系,并非介于爱人或甚至是最好朋友间的关系,而是介于公民伙伴间,他们可能处于,彼此紧张敌对或竞争的关系,以求争得政治官位或荣誉。
应用推荐