postulates

英 [ˈpɒstjuleɪts]

美 [ˈpɑːstʃuleɪts]

v.  假定; 假设
postulate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

The verb is pronounced /'pɒstjʊleɪt/. The noun is pronounced /'pɒstjʊlət/. 动词读作 /'pɒstjʊleɪt/。名词读作 /'pɒstjʊlət/。


• VERB 假定；假设
  If youpostulatesomething, you suggest it as the basis for a theory, argument, or calculation, or assume that it is the basis.
  1. ...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
  2. 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。
• N-COUNT 假定；假设
  Apostulateis an idea that is suggested as or assumed to be the basis for a theory, argument, or calculation.
  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。

双语例句

• We live because as Anthropic Principle postulates that our Universe seems to be designed to fit our existence.
  我们之所以能够生存，是因为如人择原理所假定，这个宇宙为了适应我们的生存而专门设计的。
• The author postulates that the sun will die after 100 million years.
  那位作者假定一亿年后太阳会消失[能量会用尽]。
• Based on postulates of relativity and relativistic Doppler effect, the amount of displacement of interference fringe in Fizeau experiment is deduced.
  用经典的相对性原理难于解释斐索实验中观察到的干涉条纹的移动。
• A proposition deducible from basic postulates.
  从基本公设推论出的命题。
• Current government audit standards actually have included some ideas of audit postulates.
  现行国家审计准则其实已蕴含若干审计假设思想。
• Also emphasising that it is a point of view which postulates the mind as having a certain conceptual structure.
  还强调，这是一个角度来看这些假设的思想具有一定的概念结构。
• Two basic postulates and a hypothesis in circuit theory are provided.
  文中提出了电路理论的两个基本公设和一个假设。
• For statesman, values lived are more reliable than postulates articulated.
  对于一个政治家来说，身体力行的准则比口头上的主张更加受到人们的信赖。
• Gallic logic often tempted him to carry his postulates to extremes, unnecessarily wounding to Americans.
  高卢人的逻辑常常使得他把他的一些设想发展到极端，以致不必要地伤害了美国人。
• At first glance, the two postulates seem innocent enough.
  乍一看来，这两个假设似乎够单纯的了。