presupposed

英 [ˌpriːsəˈpəʊzd]

美 [ˌpriːsəˈpoʊzd]

v.  姑且认为; 假设; 以…为前提; 依…而定
presuppose的过去分词和过去式

过去式：presupposed　过去分词：presupposed　

COCA.42044

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预先假定；以…为前提；以…为先决条件
  If one thingpresupposesanother, the first thing cannot be true or exist unless the second thing is true or exists.
  1. All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man...
     你所有论点的前提都是他是一个理性而聪明的人。
  2. The end of an era presupposes the start of another.
     一个时代的结束意味着另一个时代的开始。

双语例句

• The responsible and clear distinction between ends which are decent and ends which are not is in a way presupposed by politics.
  目标正当与否之间根本而明确的分野在某种意义上是由政治预先设定的。
• It is an essential part of our nationhood. However, their functions are presupposed by topic relevance, which is the premise of discourse coherence.
  它是我们立国的必要条件。话题相关是实现语篇连贯的必要条件。
• The gentile constitution in its best days, as we saw it in america, presupposed an extremely undeveloped state of production and therefore an extremely sparse population over a wide area.
  全盛时期的氏族制度，如我们在美洲所见的，其前提是生产极不发达，因而广大地区内人口极度稀少；
• The purport of the science is to become acquainted with the procedure of finite thought: and, if it is adapted to its presupposed object, the science is entitled to be styled correct.
  这门科学的主旨在于认识有限思维的运用过程，只要这门科学所采取的方法能够适合于处理其所设定的题材，这门科学就算是正确的。
• Self-consciousness has an adaptive function, and its origination and development are presupposed by the developement of the cognitive ability of the early man.
  它具有适应功能；而早期人类认知能力的发展为自我意识的起源与发展提供了前提条件。
• The expression of "what is art" is a deadly wrong way to ask a question, which has mistakenly presupposed that art is an independent entity.
  “什么是艺术”这种表达方式，是一个非常错误的提问方式，这个错误方式预先错误地假设艺术是一个独立的实体。
• This algorithm adjusts the step-size appropriately according to the presupposed precision and the local truncation error of each step.
  该算法根据每步计算中局部截断误差和精度的要求，合理调整步长大小。
• But this approach presupposed the distinction between observation sentences and non-observation sentences in a language, and observation sentences are evidence for knowledge of external world.
  但是这个进路预设了自然语言中有很明确的观察语句与非观察语句的区分，而且观察语句同时是作为有关外在世界的知识的证据。
• The wavelet is usually presupposed the minimum phase in wavelet estimation.
  常规的地震子波估计是在假设子波为最小相位的基础上对地震记录进行处理。
• They are assumptions and inferences we might make about the question, but are not presupposed within the question itself.
  但是我们可以通过问题制造假设，只是问题本身不具有假设而已。