supposes

英 [səˈpəʊzɪz]

美 [səˈpoʊzɪz]

v.  (根据所知)认为，推断，料想; 假定; 假设; 设想; (婉转表达)我看，要我说，要不
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 假定;假设;设想
  You can usesupposeorsupposingbefore mentioning a possible situation or action. You usually then go on to consider the effects that this situation or action might have.
  1. Suppose someone gave you an egg and asked you to describe exactly what was inside...
     假设有人给了你一枚鸡蛋并要你准确描述鸡蛋里面有什么。
  2. Supposing he's right and I do die tomorrow? Maybe I should take out an extra insurance policy.
     假设他是对的，我确实明天就会死，那该怎么办？也许我应该再买一份保险。
• VERB (根据所知)认为，推断，料想
  If yousuppose thatsomething is true, you believe that it is probably true, because of other things that you know.
  1. The policy is perfectly clear and I see no reason to suppose that it isn't working...
     这项政策非常清楚明了，我没有理由认为它不会奏效。
  2. I knew very well that the problem was more complex than he supposed...
     我很清楚那个问题比他料想的要更复杂。
  3. It had been supposed that by then Peter would be married.
     人们一直认为到那时彼得应该结婚了。

Note that when you are using the verbsupposewith a 'that'-clause in order to state a negative opinion or belief, you normally makesupposenegative, rather than the verb in the 'that'-clause. For instance, it is more usual to say'I don't suppose he ever saw it'than 'I suppose he didn't ever see it'. The same pattern applies to other verbs with a similar meaning, such asbelieve,consider, andthink.
注意，使用动词 suppose 加 that 从句表达否定的意见或看法时，通常否定 suppose 而非 that 从句中的动词。例如，通常说 I don't suppose he ever saw it（我认为他从没见过），而不说 I suppose he didn't ever saw it。同样的句型也适用于其他含义相近的动词，如 believe, consider 和 think。

• PHRASE 我看;要我说;我想
  You can say 'I suppose' when you want to express slight uncertainty.
  1. I get a bit uptight these days. Hormones, I suppose...
     这些天我有点焦躁。我看是荷尔蒙在作怪。
  2. I suppose I'd better do some homework...
     我看我最好做做功课。
  3. Is that the right way up? — Yeah. I suppose so...
     这是上去的路吗？——是的，我想是。
  4. There's nothing to keep us here, is there? — I suppose not.
     这里没有什么让我们留恋的，对吧？——我想没有。
• PHRASE (表示不耐烦或有些生气)我想，我看
  You can say 'I suppose' or 'I don't suppose' before describing someone's probable thoughts or attitude, when you are impatient or slightly angry with them.
  1. I suppose you think you're funny...
     我想你认为自己很好笑。
  2. I don't suppose it occurred to you to notify the police.
     我看你没想过要去通知警察。
• PHRASE (用于婉转地提出请求)
  You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
  1. I don't suppose you could tell me where James Street is could you?
     你能否告诉我詹姆斯街在哪儿？
• PHRASE (用于询问意见)你认为，你觉得
  You can use 'do you suppose' to introduce a question when you want someone to give their opinion about something, although you know that they are unlikely to have any more knowledge or information about it than you.
  1. Do you suppose he was telling the truth?...
     你认为他说的是实话吗？
  2. What do you suppose they want with her?...
     你认为他们想从她那里得到什么？
  3. You don't suppose they'd start the trip without us, do you?
     你认为他们是不会抛下我们就上路的，对吧？
• PHRASE (用于礼貌地建议或请求)
  You can use 'do you suppose' as a polite way of suggesting or requesting that someone does something.
  1. Do you suppose we could get together for a little chat sometime soon?
     我们最近能抽空聚在一起聊上几句吗？

双语例句

• The city man supposes that his happiness depends on establishing, somehow, a special kind of harmonious accord with others.
  城市里的人以为他的幸福是建立在与其他人之间某种和谐关系上。
• The theory supposes the existence of life on other planets.
  这个理论假定其他行星存在生命。
• Anyone can see however that this most real of beings, in which negation forms no part, is the very opposite of what it ought to be and of what understanding supposes it to be.
  但是任何人也易于看出，说这个万有中的最真实的存在没有任何否定性，恰好是他应当如此，和知性以为他是如何的反面。
• Even to see wrongly or to hear wrongly can happen only to one who sees or hears something real, though not exactly what he supposes.
  即使看到或听到的错误可能发生错误只有一个谁看到或听到一些真实的，虽然不完全是他假定。
• Empiricism therefore labors under a delusion, if it supposes that, while analyzing the objects, it leaves them as they were: it really transforms the concrete into an abstract.
  因此，经验主义在分析对象时，往往陷于错觉：它自以为让对象呈现其本来面目，不增减改变任何成分，但事实上，却将对象具体的内容转变成为抽象的了。
• The current paper does not differentiate the form of industrial cluster from the origin of firms, it supposes that the cluster firms come from the exterior of area.
  现有文献对产业集聚机制的理论研究，并没有对形成集聚的企业的来源进行区分，暗含的假设了这些企业都是来源于集聚区域之外的。
• News agency supposes information release centre, video audio-visual center, picture center, mass communication network, etc.
  通讯社下设信息发布中心、视频音像中心、图片中心、大众传播网等。
• But this, Greenblatt supposes, is something about which he has very little self-consciousness.
  但是，格林布拉特认为，对此，威尔逊自己并没有意识。
• The law supposes that parents know what is best for their children.
  法律假定父母了解什么对他们自己的孩子最有益处。
• Liu supposes that Chinese can learn from Westerners how to better safeguard social order and justice.
  刘认为，中国人可以向西方人学习如何更好的维护社会秩序与公义。