presuppose

verb

1. 姑且认为；假设
   to accept sth as true or existing and act on that basis, before it has been proved to be true
   1. Teachers sometimes presuppose a fairly high level of knowledge by the students.
      教师有时候假定学生的知识水平相当高。
2. 以…为前提；依…而定
   to depend on sth in order to exist or be true
   1. His argument presupposes that it does not matter who is in power.
      他的论点前提是谁掌权都无关紧要。

1. VERB 预先假定；以…为前提；以…为先决条件
   If one thing presupposes another, 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。

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。
3. Presuppose a functioning Linux distribution installed on nonexotic hardware, even though LFS is probably less demanding as far as configuration tools and scripting are concerned.
   预先假设起作用的Linux发行版已安装在非外来的（nonexotic）硬件上，即使LFS可能没有配置工具和脚本那么受关注。
4. This toolkit does not presuppose any specific methodology for developing SIP-based services.
   该工具包不会为基于SIP的服务的开发预先假设任何具体的方法。
5. But all of those answers presuppose someone knows what the heck you're selling, or talking about, or endorsing.
   但这些答案的前提是别人知道您卖什么产品、谈论什么问题或支持什么。
6. The first two involve the use of the supplied DASes, which presuppose you are probably going to be reading from and writing to a relational database or an XML file.
   前两种方法使用现成的DAS，以可能要读取或写入数据库或XML文件为前提。
7. But even if you presuppose your site will only be seen by people on computers who share your primary language, there are thousands, even tens and hundreds of thousands, of font faces.
   尽管您认为您的站点仅由使用相同母语的计算机浏览，但它们也存在大量的字体风格。
8. What you are emphasizing, the thing that I presuppose, is that love isn't a single thing.
   你强调的东西和我预先假定的事情，是爱不是一个单独的东西。
9. Abstract: alternative tourism planning and design must presuppose preserving regional ecology system, and ecological planning and design should be key principle in all tourism products.
   摘要：替代性旅游（大众旅游）核心是它的规划设计必须建立在保护当地生态环境的前提基础上，旅游的生态原则是贯穿各种产品链的主线。
10. It doesn't presuppose any background in philosophy.
    它并不需要任何哲学基础。
11. On the other hand, there are at least as many passages in the last part which clearly and unmistakably look back to and presuppose verses in the first.
    在另一方面，至少有很多通道，在最后一部分，这显然无误地回顾和假定诗在第一。
12. These three factors of variation have one thing in common: they all presuppose the artistic recognition of subjectivity.
    这三种因素有一个共性：它们都先入为主地假定了主观的艺术认知。
13. If people see a therapist, psychologist or a healer, they silently presuppose that these experts have some superior knowledge or skill which can help them solve their issues.
    如果人们去看一个治疗师，心理医生或疗愈者，他们会默认这些专家有着一些更高级的知识或技能能帮助他们解决他们的问题。
14. Let us presuppose that he wins the game.
    让我们先假定他赢得这场比赛。
15. To abstract from the historical process and to fix the religious sentiment as something by itself and to presuppose an abstract isolated human individual.
    从历史进程中抽象出来，投入宗教的感情中，假定一个抽象的-孤立的-人类个体。
16. If I am counting upon a visit from a friend, who may be coming by train or by tram, I presuppose that the train will arrive at the appointed time, or that the tram will not be derailed.
    如果我期望我的朋友前来看我，他可能坐火车或者电车前来，我预期火车将会在约定的时间到达，或者电车将不会出轨。
17. The lapse speed operation ci pumps is a kind of energy-saving regulation. The economical operation of the system presuppose the determination of high-efficient lapse speed range of pumps.
    水泵降速运行是水泵的一种节能调节方式，确定水泵的高效降速范围是保证系统经济运行的前提。
18. If we presuppose these works of modernism are artworks, please take my humble advice: Please give up the impossible attempt to define art, and it would be more advisable to go out for a glass of beer.
    如果我们假定现代主义的这些东西是艺术品，那么请采纳我谦卑的建议：请彻底放弃为艺术下定义这桩不可能的事，出去喝杯啤酒是更可取的。
19. It's dangerous to presuppose that a person is guilty.
    先假定某人有罪是危险的。
20. Let us presuppose that he wants money.
    我们不妨假定他缺钱。
21. As I'll show today there are a lot of ways of seeing that these letters simply presuppose a different stage in early Christianity.
    但今天我还会指出，在很多地方，这些信都简单假设了，早期基督教的不同阶段。
22. First, they will fill in basic material which the readings presuppose.
    首先，它会充实预先发的阅读笔记。
23. The equality of human beings does not presuppose, however, biological equality.
    但人类的平等并不能预先设定，更何况是生物上平等。
24. Surveying work is basis, presuppose and guarantee for construction. It directly effects on the construction velocity, period and benefits.
    测量工作是建设的基础、前提和保证，直接影响着建设的速度、工期和效益。
25. It might Occupy a position in the literary history presuppose relaxation of the requirement to "feminine consciousness".
    在批评家放宽女性意识这一标尺的前提下，美国第一代女性文学有可能在文学史上占据一席之地。
26. Because perspective introjections are regarded as a kind of effective presuppose, equally valid in our daily contacts, as the possibility of the text interpretation and talking with others, the concept of supposing others 'words real in hermeneutics is involved in.
    由于把视域的融合作为一种有效的预设，在我们的日常交往中同样有效，作为文本解释和他人谈话的可能性条件，一种设想他人为真的诠释学意愿涵盖其中。
27. These words and structures that can presuppose propositions are considered as presupposition triggers.
    这些能够引发预设的词语和句子结构称之为预触发语。
28. Through the nominalization of theme or subject, it can presuppose something uncertain as certain or established to make the information more natural and acceptable.
    通过主位的名词化，可以将不确定的信息预设为更自然，更易于接受的事实。
29. Contract duration presuppose the existence of surrender activity.
    可以说，寿险合同持续期问题以退保的存在为前提。
30. Presupposition trigger, an important term in pragmatics, refers to some words and structures that can presuppose something.
    预设触发语是语用学中的一个重要概念，指的是触发预设的某些词语或结构。

verb

1. require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
   1. This step presupposes two prior ones

   Synonym:    suppose

2. take for granted or as a given
   1. I presuppose that you have done your work

   Synonym:    suppose