[ADJ 形容词](基于)假设的;假定的 If something is hypothetical, it is based on possible ideas or situations rather than actual ones.
Let's look at a hypothetical situation in which Carol, a recovering cocaine addict, gets invited to a party.
让我们假设这样一种情景,卡萝尔,一位正在康复的可卡因成瘾者,应邀去参加一个聚会。
...a purely hypothetical question.
纯属假设的问题
Hypothetical is also a noun.
Well, at present we won't speculate on hypotheticals.
嗯,目前我们不想去推测那些假想的东西。
hypothetically
He was invariably willing to discuss the possibilities hypothetically...
他总是愿意谈论各种假设的可能性。
It bases its figures on what it might, hypothetically, be earning on past investment.
这些假定的可能收益数字是依据过去的投资得出的。
Oxford
hypo·thet·ic·alAWL/ˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkl; NAmEˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkl/adjectivebased on situations or ideas which are possible and imagined rather than real and true 假设的;假定的◆a hypothetical question/situation/example假定的问题╱情况╱例子◆Let us take the hypothetical case of Sheila, a mother of two…我们且举关于希拉这个假定的例子,她是一位有两个孩子的母亲…◆I wasn't asking about anybody in particular—it was a purely hypotheticalquestion. 我并没有问到具体某个人,那不过是个纯粹假设性的问题。▶hypo·thet·ic·al·lyAWL/ˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkli; NAmEˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkli/adverbhypo·thet·ic·al/ˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkl; NAmEˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkl/hypo·thet·ic·al·ly/ˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkli; NAmEˌhaɪpəˈθetɪkli/
based on a situation that is not real, but that might happenhypothetical situation/example/question Brennan brought up a hypothetical case to make his point. The question is purely hypothetical. → imaginary—hypothetically /-kli/ adverb
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