Assumption
[ə'sʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n] or [ə'sʌmpʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of taking possession of or power over something; 'his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba'; 'the Nazi assumption of power in 1934'; 'he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts'.
(noun.) the act of assuming or taking for granted; 'your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted'.
(noun.) a hypothesis that is taken for granted; 'any society is built upon certain assumptions'.
(noun.) (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended.
(noun.) celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
辛迪校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
(n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
(n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
(n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
(n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
(n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
整理:莉莲
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Assuming, arrogating, usurpation.[2]. Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory.[3]. Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness, lordliness, stateliness, conceit, pride, conceitedness, self-conceit, self-importance, vain-glory, arrogance, insolence, HAUTEUR.
校对:迈拉
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Arrogance, boldness, impudence, self-confidence, selfreliance, effrontery,presumption, conviction, certainty, self-assertion
ANT:Distrust, timidity, bashfulness, misgiving, self-distrust, consternation,dismay, alarm
校对:劳伦斯
解释:
n. act of assuming: a supposition: the thing supposed a proposition: (logic) the minor premise in a syllogism.—Assumption of the Virgin a church festival kept on the 15th of August based on the notion that after the death of Mary her soul and body were preserved from corruption and taken up to heaven by Christ and His angels.—Deed of assumption (Scots law) a deed executed by trustees under a trust-deed assuming a new trustee or settlement.
整理:莉莲
例句:
- In spite of his resolute assumption of composure, he was getting anxious for the agent's arrival. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- He saw the yellow flare in her eyes, he knew the unthinkable overweening assumption of primacy in her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The episode is, by assumption, past. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Now for our assumption. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Despite that pernicious assumption of lassitude and indifference, which had become his second nature, he was strongly attached to his friend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It was the Feast of the Assumption; no school was held. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- On the other hand, the ordinary belief that the amount of possible variation is a strictly limited quantity, is likewise a simple assumption. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Well, then, I hope to make the discovery in this way: I mean to begin with the assumption that our State, if rightly ordered, is perfect. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- So he wobbled upon a tacit assumption of social standing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The validity of this assumption was finally established by spectrum analysis. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- But I am as much puzzled to account for his sudden assumption of drunkenness as Gooseberry himself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- This was an assumption of a sort of intimacy that irritated Gudrun almost like an affront. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He was forced by the logic of his assumptions to attempt the complete eradication of a system that flatly denied them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He stood against assumptions, and insisted on rigid proof. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Adams started with the assumptions, not im probable, that the orbit of the unknown planet was a circle, and that its distance from the sun was tw ice that of Uranus. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- They rest nearly always upon theoretical assumptions of the slenderest kind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Perhaps uncriticised assumptions have obscured the real uses of politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- We then proceeded to an analysis of the various assumptions underlying this segregation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- We cannot expect to meet our problems with a few inherited ideas, uncriticised assumptions, a foggy vocabulary, and a machine philosophy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- There are, I hope, no assumptions put forward as dogmas. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- This omniscience of the human intellect is one of the commonest assumptions in the world. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If these work out with moderate satisfactoriness, we are content to suppose that our assumptions have been confirmed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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