Until recently, the assumption has been that cellulose would take over from sugar and starch as the feedstock for making biofuels.

直到最近，这个假定认为纤维素会取代蔗糖和淀粉作为给料，制造生物燃料。

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You would be making an assumption that's not based on any fact that you could report.

你会做出不以你能报道的任何事实为依据的一种假设。

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And right off the bat you notice that I am making a huge assumption here.

在你交卷的时候，你正好注意到我在这里做了一个重要的假设。

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And right off the bat you notice that I am making a huge assumption here.

在你交卷的时候,你正好注意到我在这里做了一个重要的假设。

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You don't want to predicate making complicated gambles under the assumption that they don't exist.

你不会将赌注,押在不可能存在的东西上

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But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

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That may well be true of course: but the real point is that Wall Street is making that assumption.

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To look into my crystal ball I ran a hypothetical simulation making the assumption that the closes for Friday December 16 were the closes for 2011.

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You can work out default expectations by looking at the spreads on speculative bonds and making an assumption about the amount investors will recover from companies that fail to pay up in full.

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