詞彙精選：postulate的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
假定，假設
例句：
Offe also challenges the postulate of an organized capitalism.
奧費也質疑“有組織的資本主義”的假設。
例句：
Is this a reasonable postulate?
這是不是一個合理的假設？
先決條件，基本條件
例句：
It should accord with the corresponding requirement of the 6th postulate.
它應符合第六條基本條件的相應要求。
例句：
Moral has become the core and postulate of the corporation organization's competition.
道德逐漸成爲現代企業組織競爭的基本條件和核心
v.
假定，假設 [T]
例句：
He dismissed arguments postulating differing standards for human rights in different cultures and regions.
他無法接受假設不同文化有不同人權標準的論點。
例句：
Freud postulated that we all have a death instinct as well as a life instinct.
弗洛伊德曾假定我們所有人都有生存本能和死亡本能。
要求；視…爲理所當然 [T]
例句：
They postulate excessive increase in price.
他們把物價過度增長視爲當然。
例句：
Men's terrors in face of the enigmatically dangerous universe led them to postulate the existence of angry gods.
面對宇宙不可思議的危險時，人們的恐懼引導他們視憤怒之神存在爲理所當然。
二、詞義辨析：
assume,presume,suppose,guess,postulate
這些動詞均含爲“假設，猜想，推測”之意。assume指有很少或完全無根據的武斷推測或不合邏輯的推理。presume側重以過去經驗或根據現實的某些感覺把某事認定爲是事實。suppose常用詞，意義較廣泛，指缺乏確切事實，根據一些現象進行的推測，也可指爲論證而提出合乎邏輯推理的某種假定，有時僅表示自己的意見。 guess常用詞，指毫無根據僅憑個人主觀臆斷或碰運氣的猜測。postulate指爲證實一個理論的正確性而進行的假設。
三、參考例句：
Is this a reasonable postulate?
這是不是一個合理的假設？
They postulate excessive increase in price.
他們把物價過度增長視爲當然。
Offe also challenges the postulate of an organized capitalism.
奧費也質疑“有組織的資本主義”的假設。
This is also in accordance with my postulate of radical fallibility.
這也與我的極端易謬性假設是一致的。
The null result was directly related to a central postulate of the theory.
零結果都直接與理論的中心假設相聯繫。
Moral has become the core and postulate of the corporation organization's competition.
道德逐漸成爲現代企業組織競爭的基本條件和核心
Even if we postulate that she had a motive for the murder, it still doesn't mean she did it.
即使我們假設她有謀殺的動機，那也並不意味着是她乾的。
Men's terrors in face of the enigmatically dangerous universe led them to postulate the existence of angry gods.
面對宇宙不可思議的危險時，人們的恐懼引導他們視憤怒之神存在爲理所當然。
