postulate

英['pɒstjuleɪt] 美['pɑːstʃəleɪt]
  • n. 假定；基本条件
  • vt. 要求；假定
postulation postulated postulated postulating postulates
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详细释义

Noun:
  1. (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

Verb:
  1. maintain or assert;

    "He contended that Communism had no future"

  2. take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom;

    "He posited three basic laws of nature"

  3. require as useful, just, or proper;

    "It takes nerve to do what she did"
    "success usually requires hard work"
    "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"
    "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"
    "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"
    "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

双语例句

1. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Let's postulate that she is a cook.
我们假定她是一位厨师.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. Our new postulate asserts that this is precisely what we cannot say.
我们的新假设恰好断定,这正是我们所不能说的.

来自辞典例句

4. A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate.
各种铀来源的综合考虑可能是最现实的假说.

来自辞典例句

5. If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate.
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.

来自辞典例句

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate.
      各种铀来源的综合考虑可能是最现实的假说。
    2. Authority is a postulate of the moral order and derives from God.
      权威是一种道德秩序的主张，并且它来源于上帝。
    3. If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate .
      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。
    用作及物动词 (vt.)
    1. The school building programme postulates an increase in educational investment.
      修建校舍的规划是在增加教育经费的前提下拟定的。
    2. He postulated that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000.
      他推断到2000年能研究出治愈该病的方法。
    3. They postulate excessive increase in price.
      他们把物价过度增长视为当然。

用法讲解

assume，presume，suppose，guess，postulate
  • 这些动词均含为“假设，猜想，推测”之意。
  • assume指有很少或完全无根据的武断推测或不合逻辑的推理。
  • presume侧重以过去经验或根据现实的某些感觉把某事认定为是事实。
  • suppose常用词，意义较广泛，指缺乏确切事实，根据一些现象进行的推测，也可指为论证而提出合乎逻辑推理的某种假定，有时仅表示自己的意见。
  • guess常用词，指毫无根据仅凭个人主观臆断或碰运气的猜测。
  • postulate指为证实一个理论的正确性而进行的假设。

    • 相关词汇

    【邻近词汇】

    posture postscript postulated point postulate of order postulated particle postulated mechanism postulated condition postulate of infinity postulated conditions postulate of behavior postulate of induction postulate of set algebra
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