postulate
v[Tn, Tf]
(fml 文) put (sth) forward as a fact or accept (sth) as true, esp as a basis for reasoning or argument 假定, 假设(某事物)(尤指作推理或论证之出发点)
The school building programme postulates an increase in educational investment. 修建校舍的计画是在增加教育经费的前提下拟定的.
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.
postulate n thing assumed to be true, or accepted as a basis for reasoningor calculation 假定; 假设; 公设
the postulates of Euclideangeometry 欧几里得几何学的公设.
OK. We can get some more tomorrow. We should finish the floor now. Can you take the other end of this piece of wood? Now you have to pull it to make the surface smooth like that.