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

• Conventional wisdom posits that sideways moves are like pressing the pause button on your career, an idea that has stuck around even as organizations grow increasingly flatter.
  传统观念认为，选择平级跳槽，无异于在职业生涯的发展过程中摁下了暂停键。即使在整个商业形势不景气时，这种观点依然根深蒂固，颇有市场。
• This posits that rich mainlanders are diversifying their assets: Hong Kong as an international financial centre with a fully convertible currency, low tax regime and strong links to mainland China is a very convenient place to do it.
  这种观点认为，富有的内地居民正在分散投资自己的资产：香港是一个具有完全可兑换货币的国际金融中心，税负低，又与中国内地有紧密的联系，因此十分便利。
• The second explanation derives from the Red Queen Hypothesis, which posits an evolutionary arms race between predators and prey.
  第二种解释来自“红皇后假说”，该假说假定在掠食者和猎物之间存在一种跟进化相关的军备竞赛。
• 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。
• While this approach might seem to be out of order, the editor posits that it might be in order of difficulty.
  尽管这种方式的顺序看起来有些不合常理，但编辑假定这可能是按照困难程度来安排的。
• 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。
• She posits that the scores on measures of short-term memory and reaction time will vary accordingly, regardless of how long the subjects actually slept.
  兰格设想，这些受试者的短期记忆和反应时间等指标的得分将发生相应变化，而无论他们的实际睡眠时间有多长。
• The study essentially posits this: if autonomous cars become the norm, they could be shared by two people in the same household.
  该研究指出：如果自动驾驶汽车成为常态，两位家庭成员就可以同时使用一辆车。
• 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。