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

• 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]。
• 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。
• 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。
• The efficient market hypothesis postulates that markets tend towards equilibrium and deviations occur in a random fashion; moreover, markets are supposed to function without any discontinuity in the sequence of prices.
  有效市场假说认为，市场总是趋向于平衡，偏离是随机出现的；并认为市场价格的运行不会出现“不连续点”。
• They proclaimed to be eternal postulates of reason and justice.
  他们宣称这些原则是理性和正义的永恒的要求。
• Several scientific groups working on SARS around the world had met three postulates.
  世界上研究莎士的几支科研组已了三项假定。
• Inference of the obverse of a proposition. a proposition deducible from basic postulates.
  换质法推导一个命题的方法从基本公设推论出的命题。
• 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。
• Dick postulates an alternate ending to the Second World War, one which witnessed the defeat of the Allies, the conquest of the American continent by the Japanese Empire and Nazi Germany, and the subsequent Cold War fought between the two new Axis Powers.
  迪克在书中假设二战有了另外一种结局，反法西斯同盟被打败，全北美洲都被日本帝国和纳粹德国所征服，接下来这两大轴心国之间便开始冷战。
• Its postulates are binding upon all men in every part of the world.
  它的要求对世界各地的任何人都有约束力。