suppositions

英 [ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃənz]

美 [ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃənz]

n.  推测的想法; 推断的结论; 推测; 推断
supposition的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 假定;假设;设想
  Asuppositionis an idea or statement which someone believes or assumes to be true, although they may have no evidence for it.
  1. There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts...
     人们普遍认为我们是受公共基金的资助，然而我们大部分资金是通过签订竞争性合同得来的。
  2. But as with many such suppositions in natural history, no one had ever tested it.
     博物学中虽然有许多类似的假设，却从没人对此考证过。
• N-UNCOUNT 毫无根据的想法;无稽之谈
  You can describe someone's ideas or statements assuppositionif you disapprove of the fact that they have no evidence to support them.
  1. The report has been rejected by the authorities, who said much of it was based on supposition or inaccuracy.
     当局驳回了该报告，称其许多内容有的纯属臆测，有的存在偏差错误。

双语例句

• They attacked him in various ways, with barefaced question, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmise, but he eldued the skill of them all.
  他们想尽了办法对付他，赤裸裸的问题，巧妙地设想，离题很远的猜测，但他并没有上圈套。
• It is on use to argue on suppositions.
  为假设的问题进行争论是没有用处的。
• Explain your suppositions and issues that may have a substantial effect on your estimate.
  解释你的猜想，以及评估这些问题可能存在的潜在影响。
• We must make one of two following highly improbable suppositions.
  我们不得不采取下列两种不近情理的假说之一。
• Often, it is the candidates themselves who expose flawed suppositions during the interview process.
  经常是候选人本人在面试过程中揭露出了那些缺陷假设。
• The explanations to the basic suppositions have closely connected macroeconomics and microeconomics.
  对这些基本假设的解释，使宏观经济学和微观经济学紧密相连。
• If we assume, to start with, the concrete thing which the synthetic method presents as a result, we can analyse from it as consequences the abstract propositions which formed the pre suppositions and the material for the proof.
  如果我们试假定从综合方法所表明为结果的具体东西开始，则我们可以从它分析出许多抽象的命题作为结论，而这些命题便构成证明的前提和材料。
• I want knowledge, not faith, not suppositions, butknowledge. I want God to stretch out his hand to me, revealHimself and speak to me.
  我要知识，不要信仰，不要推想。我要上帝向我伸出手，显形，对我说话。
• The article's research begins with three premise suppositions: Government "economic man" of the public choice theory supposition;
  文章的研究始于三个前提假设；公共选择理论的政府经济人假设；
• But there seems to be no sufficient reason for these suppositions.
  但似乎没有足够的理由为这些假设。