to suggest or accept that sth is true so that it can be used as the basis for a theory, etc.
They postulated a 500-year lifespan for a plastic container.
他们假定塑料容器的寿命为 500 年。
1.〈正式〉假定;假设
2.提出要求
3.【法】〈罕〉辩护,作为辩护律师辩护
1.〈正式〉先决条件;前提
2.假说;假设
3.基本原理;公理
4.需要,要求
1.〈正式〉先决条件;前提
2.假说;假设
3.基本原理;公理
4.需要,要求
1.<formal>to claim or imagine that something is true or that it exists
2.to request
3.[Law]<rare>to plead as an advocate
1.<formal>an idea that is an important part of a theory, argument, or explanation
2.an unfounded or disputable unproved assumption
3.a proposition or assumption taken to be self-evident or obvious
4.a demand or request
1.<formal>an idea that is an important part of a theory, argument, or explanation
2.an unfounded or disputable unproved assumption
3.a proposition or assumption taken to be self-evident or obvious
4.a demand or request
1.The discovery that heat is a form of energy led to the postulate of a universal law of energy conservation.
热是能的一种形式这个发现，成为能量守恒这条普遍定律的出发点。
2.The authors postulate that this complication is a by-product of muscle damage secondary to retraction.
作者推测，该并发症是由于牵开引起的肌肉损伤的副产物。
3.foreign policy and historical and cultural traditions postulate that China will inevitably adopt such a national defense policy.
中国的国家利益、社会制度、对外政策和历史文化传统，决定中国必然实行防御性的国防政策。
4.When one thinks back to these days, one finds that it is really remarkable how unwilling people were to postulate a new particle.
每当回顾起那些日子，我们都会发现人们真的有多么多么地不愿意去接受一种新粒子。
5.The intrinsic randomness commonly ascribed to quantum mechanics is the result of this postulate.
一般算在量子力学头上的内在随机性，其实正是这个外加假定的结果。
6.As I postulate above, Release Engineering needs support from above to enable them to carry out the mandate to enforce consistency.
正如我前面所假定的那样，版本工程学需要获得上述支持从而执行命令来强迫执行一致性。
7.So, having brushed all that aside, we can now take up the central issue of Brahman, which you postulate.
所以，把这些都抛在一边以后，我们现在就能进入你所认定的这个婆罗门的核心问题中了。
8.is assumed, it is surely incongruous to postulate a first cause as a way of escaping from the coils of an infinite series.
然而，如果承认这一原则，那么，假设某种第一推动力以避开无限系列造成的麻烦肯定是不合理的。
9.Suppose you postulate that it deviates from that in a way that it is proportion to the force and inversely proportion to the mass.
如果你假设其偏离运动的存在，那么它与引力成正比与质量成反比。
10.however, to postulate that the effect of viscosity is confined to a thin boundary layer (except where flow separation occurs).
然而，可以假定，粘性影响只局限在一层薄薄的附面层之内（流动发生分离的情况除外）。