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Postulate Theory Increase Assume Assumed Verb Pronounced 假定;假设

英语单词 postulate
英美音标 英 ['pɒstjuleɪt] 美 ['pɑːstʃəleɪt]
中文释义 n.假定;基本条件
vt.要求;假定
英语例句 (1) A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate.
(2) Authority is a postulate of the moral order and derives from God.
(3) If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate .
(4) The school building programme postulates an increase in educational investment.
(5) He postulated that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000.
(6) They postulate excessive increase in price.
中文例句 (1) 各种铀来源的综合考虑可能是最现实的假说。
(2) 权威是一种道德秩序的主张,并且它来源于上帝。
(3) 如果事实确是如此,我们就得到了一个满足新假设的波函数。
(4) 修建校舍的规划是在增加教育经费的前提下拟定的。
(5) 他推断到2000年能研究出治愈该病的方法。
(6) 他们把物价过度增长视为当然。
vocabulary简明 Assume something or present it as a fact and you postulate it. Physicists postulate the existence of parallel universes, which is a little mind-blowing.
vocabulary扩展 Anyone who has suffered through geometry class is familiar with some of the greatest hits, like Euclid's postulate and the point-line-plane postulate. Those are propositions that have to be assumed for other mathematical statements to follow logically. As a verb (pronounced "POST-you-late") it describes the act of presenting an idea, theory, belief, or concept.
柯林斯解释
The verb is pronounced /'pɒstjʊleɪt/. The noun is pronounced /'pɒstjʊlət/. 动词读作 /'pɒstjʊleɪt/。名词读作 /'pɒstjʊlət/。
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[VERB 动词]假定;假设 If you postulate something, you suggest it as the basis for a theory, argument, or calculation, or assume that it is the basis.
  [V n]
  [V that]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • ...arguments postulating differing standards for human rights in different cultures...

    假设不同文化有不同人权标准的论点

  • Freud postulated that we all have a death instinct as well as a life instinct.

    弗洛伊德曾假定我们所有人都有生存本能和死亡本能。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]假定;假设 A postulate is an idea that is suggested as or assumed to be the basis for a theory, argument, or calculation.
  [oft N of n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Offe also challenges the postulate of an 'organized capitalism'.

    奥费也质疑“有组织的资本主义”的假设。

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