suppose
动词 v.
英 /səˈpəʊz/|[səˈpʰəʊz]
美 /səˈpoʊz/|[səˈpʰoʊz]
英文释义
动词 v.
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To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
— I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.
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To theorize or hypothesize.
— Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
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To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
— How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
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To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
— [He] keeps you from the honors of a Queene, Being ſuppoſde his worthleſſe Concubine.
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To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
— Purpose supposes foresight.
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To put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.
— A Water-monster, called the Nickard, does enter by night the chamber, where a woman is brought to bed, and stealeth when they are all sleeping, the new-born child and supposeth another in its place, which child growing up is like a monster and commonly dumb.
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From Middle English supposen, borrowed from Old French supposer, equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”); corresponding in meaning to Latin supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), suppositum. See pose.
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