presuppose

英 [ˌpriːsəˈpəʊz]

美 [ˌpriːsəˈpoʊz]

v.  姑且认为; 假设; 以…为前提; 依…而定

第三人称单数：presupposes　过去分词：presupposed　过去式：presupposed　现在分词：presupposing　

IELTSTEM8

BNC.10476 / COCA.14031

牛津词典

verb

• 姑且认为；假设
  to accept sth as true or existing and act on that basis, before it has been proved to be true
  1. 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。
• 以…为前提；依…而定
  to depend on sth in order to exist or be true
  1. His argument presupposes that it does not matter who is in power.
     他的论点前提是谁掌权都无关紧要。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预先假定；以…为前提；以…为先决条件
  If one thingpresupposesanother, the first thing cannot be true or exist unless the second thing is true or exists.
  1. All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man...
     你所有论点的前提都是他是一个理性而聪明的人。
  2. The end of an era presupposes the start of another.
     一个时代的结束意味着另一个时代的开始。

英英释义

verb

• require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
  1. This step presupposes two prior ones
  Synonym:suppose
• take for granted or as a given
  1. I presuppose that you have done your work
  Synonym:suppose

双语例句

• What you are emphasizing, the thing that I presuppose, is that love isn't a single thing.
  你强调的东西和我预先假定的事情，是爱不是一个单独的东西。
• But even if you presuppose your site will only be seen by people on computers who share your primary language, there are thousands, even tens and hundreds of thousands, of font faces.
  尽管您认为您的站点仅由使用相同母语的计算机浏览，但它们也存在大量的字体风格。
• To abstract from the historical process and to fix the religious sentiment as something by itself and to presuppose an abstract isolated human individual.
  从历史进程中抽象出来，投入宗教的感情中，假定一个抽象的-孤立的-人类个体。
• Presupposition trigger, an important term in pragmatics, refers to some words and structures that can presuppose something.
  预设触发语是语用学中的一个重要概念，指的是触发预设的某些词语或结构。
• This toolkit does not presuppose any specific methodology for developing SIP-based services.
  该工具包不会为基于SIP的服务的开发预先假设任何具体的方法。
• Through the nominalization of theme or subject, it can presuppose something uncertain as certain or established to make the information more natural and acceptable.
  通过主位的名词化，可以将不确定的信息预设为更自然，更易于接受的事实。
• As I'll show today there are a lot of ways of seeing that these letters simply presuppose a different stage in early Christianity.
  但今天我还会指出，在很多地方，这些信都简单假设了，早期基督教的不同阶段。
• The lapse speed operation ci pumps is a kind of energy-saving regulation. The economical operation of the system presuppose the determination of high-efficient lapse speed range of pumps.
  水泵降速运行是水泵的一种节能调节方式，确定水泵的高效降速范围是保证系统经济运行的前提。
• On the other hand, there are at least as many passages in the last part which clearly and unmistakably look back to and presuppose verses in the first.
  在另一方面，至少有很多通道，在最后一部分，这显然无误地回顾和假定诗在第一。
• These three factors of variation have one thing in common: they all presuppose the artistic recognition of subjectivity.
  这三种因素有一个共性：它们都先入为主地假定了主观的艺术认知。