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

• 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 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。
• 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；
• Theoretical innovation is systematic, which is presupposed by an overall grasp of its working mechanism.
  理论创新是一项系统性活动，全面把握其运行机制是开展理论创新的前提。
• In its primary and immediate aspect the Teleological relation is external design, and the notion confronts a presupposed object.
  直接的目的关系最初只是一种外在的合目的性，在这个阶段里，概念与那假定在先的客体是对立的。
• 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。
• Political development is presupposed by unfolding of basic contradictions in economy or social life.
  政治发展是以经济或社会生活矛盾的展开为前提的。
• Either in the traditional study of Chinese women or in the anthropological study of the system of the Han kinship, there is usually a presupposed basic image as the object, that is, women defined as a dependant.
  无论在传统的中国妇女研究还是在人类学汉人亲属制度研究中，大多预设了其研究对象的形象基调&妇女通常被定位为依附者的角色。
• 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。
• This metaphysic was not free or objective thinking. Instead of letting the object freely and spontaneously expound its own characteristics, metaphysic presupposed it ready made.
  这种形而上学并不是自由的和客观的思想，因为它不让客体自由地从自己本身来规定其自身，而把客体假定为现成的。