assume
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自拉丁语 assūmō (“接受”)，构自 ad- （“向”） + sūmō （“担任”）。
发音
编辑- (英国，美国，加拿大) 国际音标(帮助): /əˈsjuːm/
- (英国，带/j/音合音) 国际音标(帮助): /əˈʃuːm/
- (美国，加拿大，yod-dropping) 国际音标(帮助): /əˈsuːm/
- (尼日利亚) 国际音标(帮助): /əˈzuːm/
- 韵部：-uːm
动词
编辑assume (第三人称单数简单现在时 assumes，现在分词 assuming，一般过去时及过去分词 assumed)
- 假定；猜测；用想法来证定某件事是真实的或是有效的
- We assume that, as her parents were dentists, she knows quite a bit about dentistry.
- 我们推测，由于她的父母都是牙医，所以她对牙科也相当了解。
- 2013年6月14日, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 第 189 卷, 第 1 期，第 18 页:
- Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
- 我们曾经把情书装在密封的信封里，或是把孩子的照片贴在家庭相簿里，但现在这些隐私资料都被传送到伺服器和云端，而这些伺服器和云端是由我们不认识、也永远不会见面的人所操作的。 也许我们假设自己的姓名、地址和搜寻偏好会被一双看不见的企业眼睛（可能不是人类的眼睛）看见，因此并不太介意。
- 有关使用本词的更多用例，请参阅Citations:assume。
- 担任；担任某个职任或是承担某项义务
- Mr. Jones will assume the position of a lifeguard until a proper replacement is found.
- Jones 先生将担任救生员一职，直到找到合适的替代人员。
- Template:RQ:Homer Pope Iliad
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- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, 出版于 1993, →ISBN，第 96 页:
- His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
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- 2012年8月5日, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, 出自 (请指定书籍名或刊物名):
- So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
- 因此，尽管拉尔夫总体上看来居住在一个与其他人不同的、更光荣和更快乐的宇宙中，但他的渴望和心碎却非常容易引起共鸣。 有时候，拉尔夫看起来就像一个变身为男孩的魔怔小鬼，但他从来没有像在这里一样，更凄美、更赤裸、更感人。
- 有关使用本词的更多用例，请参阅Citations:assume。
- 假装，冒充
- He assumed an air of indifference.
- 他装出一副无动于衷的样子。
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet
- a. 1809,Beilby Porteus, sermon:
- ambition assuming the mask of religion.
- 有关使用本词的更多用例，请参阅Citations:assume。
- 接纳
- 1820, 沃尔特·司各特, 艾凡赫, 第 (please specify |volume=I, II, or III) 卷s, 爱丁堡: […] Archibald Constable and Co.；伦敦：Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
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- 采纳；接受某个想法或是原因