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Presumptive Means Call Person Adj.推测的,假定的 Good Reason True

英语单词 presumptive
中文释义 adj.推测的,假定的
vocab简明 Having a good reason to believe that something is true means that it is presumptive — you could call a person you assume will be nominated for school president the "presumptive nominee."
vocab扩展 After an election, when the votes are still being counted but it's clear who the winner will be, reporters often talk about that person as the presumptive winner. And if a doctor were fairly certain you had strep throat, she might call it her presumptive diagnosis. The Latin root word is praesumptionem, which means "confidence or audacity."
真题原句
He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear… that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension.”
来源 2002.4

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