postulate
英 ['p?stj?le?t]
美['pɑst??let]
- vt. 假定；要求；視…為理所當(dāng)然
- n. 基本條件；假定
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?postulates;過(guò)去式:?postulated;過(guò)去分詞:?postulated;現(xiàn)在分詞:?postulating;
助記提示
1. 假設(shè)張貼(post)海報(bào)時(shí)你(u, 與 you 同音)來(lái)晚了(late)。=> postulate.
中文詞源
postulate 假定，假設(shè)，提出要求，視為理所當(dāng)然
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)postulare,要求，聲稱，斷言，來(lái)自poscere,請(qǐng)求，緊急要求，-t,過(guò)去分詞格，來(lái)自Proto-Italic*porsko,來(lái)自PIE*prek,要求，請(qǐng)求，詞源同precarious,pray,可能來(lái)自PIE*per,向前，前行，詞源同ford,proceed.引申詞義假設(shè)，假定等。
英文詞源
- postulate
- postulate: [16] The noun postulate originally meant ‘demand, request’. It was an anglicization of postulātum, a noun use of the past participle of postulāre ‘demand, request’. It was used in the mid-17th century by mathematicians and logicians for a proposition that (because it was a simple or uncontentious one) ‘demanded’ to be taken for granted for the sake of further reasoning, and from this it spread to more general usage. The notion of ‘requesting’ is better preserved in postulant [18], from the present participle of the Latin verb.
- postulate (v.)
- 1530s, "nominate to a church office," from Medieval Latin postulatus, past participle of postulare "to ask, demand; claim; require," probably formed from past participle of Latin poscere "ask urgently, demand," from *posk-to-, Italic inchoative of PIE root *prek- "to ask questions" (cognates: Sanskrit prcchati, Avestan peresaiti "interrogates," Old High German forskon, German forschen "to search, inquire"). Use in logic dates from 1640s, borrowed from Medieval Latin.
- postulate (n.)
- 1580s, "a request, demand," from Latin postulatum "demand, request," properly "that which is requested," noun use of neuter past participle of postulare (see postulate (v.)). The sense in logic of "self-evident proposition" is from 1640s. The earlier noun in English was postulation (c. 1400).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Offe also challenges the postulate of an "organized capitalism".
- 奧費(fèi)也質(zhì)疑“有組織的資本主義”的假設(shè)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Let's postulate that she is a cook.
- 我們假定她是一位廚師.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. Our new postulate asserts that this is precisely what we cannot say.
- 我們的新假設(shè)恰好斷定,這正是我們所不能說(shuō)的.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate.
- 各種鈾來(lái)源的綜合考慮可能是最現(xiàn)實(shí)的假說(shuō).
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate.
- 如果事實(shí)確是如此,我們就得到了一個(gè)滿足新假設(shè)的波函數(shù).
來(lái)自辭典例句