in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 hypothesise
- VERB 假设;假定
If you hypothesize that something will happen, you say that you think that thing will happen because of various facts you have considered.
- To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected...
为了解释这一点,他们假定各星系一定包含了大量无法探测到的不明物质。 - I have long hypothesized a connection between these factors.
我一直以来就认为这些因素之间存在着某种关联。