postulate

英 ['pɒstjuleɪt] 美 ['pɑːstʃəleɪt]

• n. 假定；基本条件
• vt. 要求；假定

英英释义

Noun:

1. (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

Verb:

1. maintain or assert;

   "He contended that Communism had no future"
   

2. take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom;

   "He posited three basic laws of nature"
   

3. require as useful, just, or proper;

   "It takes nerve to do what she did"
   "success usually requires hard work"
   "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"
   "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"
   "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"
   "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate.
   各种铀来源的综合考虑可能是最现实的假说。
2. Authority is a postulate of the moral order and derives from God.
   权威是一种道德秩序的主张，并且它来源于上帝。
3. If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate .
   如果事实确是如此，我们就得到了一个满足新假设的波函数。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The school building programme postulates an increase in educational investment.
   修建校舍的规划是在增加教育经费的前提下拟定的。
2. He postulated that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000.
   他推断到2000年能研究出治愈该病的方法。
3. They postulate excessive increase in price.
   他们把物价过度增长视为当然。

经典引文

• The first postulate of this hypothesis is..the assumption of total coherence.

  出自： N. Frye

• Therapy depends..on the postulate that the truth of a person's life can be uncovered in therapy.

  出自： J. Masson

• The chapter was then allowed to postulate the bishop of Bath.

  出自： W. Stubbs

词汇搭配

• accrual postulate [经] 应计的假定...
• homogeneity postulate 齐一性的假设...
• lattice postulate 点阵假设
• continuity postulate 持续经营假设...
• accounting postulate [经] 会计假定...

词义辨析

assume，presume，suppose，guess，postulate

• 这些动词均含为“假设，猜想，推测”之意。
• assume指有很少或完全无根据的武断推测或不合逻辑的推理。
• presume侧重以过去经验或根据现实的某些感觉把某事认定为是事实。
• suppose常用词，意义较广泛，指缺乏确切事实，根据一些现象进行的推测，也可指为论证而提出合乎逻辑推理的某种假定，有时仅表示自己的意见。
• guess常用词，指毫无根据仅凭个人主观臆断或碰运气的猜测。
• postulate指为证实一个理论的正确性而进行的假设。

近反义词

【近义词】

• assume 假定
• guess 推测
• hypothesize 假设
• suggest 建议
• claim 要求
• put forward 提出
• propose 打算
• advance 前进
• nominate 提名
• select 选择
• choose 选择
• solicit 恳求
• submit 使服从
• thesis 毕业论文
• speculation 推测
• proposition 提议
• shot 注射
• posit 假定
• require 要求
• need 需要
• take 拿
• involve 包含
• ask 询问
• necessitate 使 ... 成为必需...
• contend 竞争
• demand 要求
• call for 需要
• presume 假定
• suppose 假设