posits

英 [ˈpɒzɪts]

美 [ˈpɑːzɪts]

v.  假设; 认定; 认为…为实
posit的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 假定；假设
  If youpositsomething, you suggest or assume it as the basis for an argument or calculation.
  1. Several writers have posited the idea of a universal consciousness...
     有几个作者都假设存在普遍意识。
  2. Callahan posits that chemical elements radiate electromagnetic signals.
     卡拉汉假定化学元素放射电磁信号。

双语例句

• He posits it may come from aloofness, borne out of shyness.
  他推测那可能源自因害羞产生的离群感。
• One theory posits that they form far from their parent stars about where Jupiter and Saturn are now and move inward over time.
  一种理论提出，他们形成于远离主恒星的位置，大约相当于木星和土星目前的位置，随着时间的推移它们向内部移动。
• Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson more often than not impress their readers as two polemical extremes, for the latter posits the political unconscious as the untranscendable horizon of critical acts, whereas the former designates the linguistic unconscious as the ultimate reference of literary analysis.
  摘要保罗？德曼和弗雷德里克？詹姆逊给读者的印象往往是不可调和的论争对手，因为后者视政治无意识为不可超越的批评视界，而前者则把语言无意识当作文学批评的最终涉指。
• Dr Berger posits that sediba may have evolved directly into Homo erectus, leaving habilis as an evolutionary sideline, and not even part of the genus Homo.
  李博杰博士断定南方古猿源泉种直接进化为直立猿人甚至不是人属的一部分，在这点上能人就稍逊一筹。
• The theory of markedness model posits that code-switching can be divided into the marked and the unmarked.
  标记模式理论把语码转换主要分成有标记和无标记转换。
• Inevitably, Qingsong posits, our spiritual as well as material worlds'are affected.
  因此，王庆松指出，我们的精神和物质世界都受到了影响。
• He posits that Google is extremely confident, and that it is using the out-sized break-up fee as a way to relay that confidence to regulators.
  他认为，谷歌对于收购极度自信，它希望这种一掷千金的做法能让监管机构感受到公司的这种信心。
• Realism, as a theory of international relations, posits that tragedy is not the triumph of evil over good, but instead the triumph of one good over another that causes suffering.
  作为国际关系理论之一，现实主义假定，悲剧不是邪恶战胜正义，而是一种会带来痛苦的正义战胜另一种正义。
• The cancer stem cell hypothesis posits that tumors are derived from a single cancer-initiating cell with stem cell properties.
  肿瘤干细胞学说表明肿瘤由一个具有干细胞特征的肿瘤始祖细胞分化而来。
• Much to my relief, Ariely posits that we are pretty much all unable to take all factors into account when deciding what to do, and when.
  让我颇感安慰的是，艾瑞里指出，人们在决定何时做什么事时，很少会把所有因素都考虑进去。