词汇精选：postulate的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
n.
假定，假设
例句：
Offe also challenges the postulate of an organized capitalism.
奥费也质疑“有组织的资本主义”的假设。
例句：
Is this a reasonable postulate?
这是不是一个合理的假设？
先决条件，基本条件
例句：
It should accord with the corresponding requirement of the 6th postulate.
它应符合第六条基本条件的相应要求。
例句：
Moral has become the core and postulate of the corporation organization's competition.
道德逐渐成为现代企业组织竞争的基本条件和核心
v.
假定，假设 [T]
例句：
He dismissed arguments postulating differing standards for human rights in different cultures and regions.
他无法接受假设不同文化有不同人权标准的论点。
例句：
Freud postulated that we all have a death instinct as well as a life instinct.
弗洛伊德曾假定我们所有人都有生存本能和死亡本能。
要求；视…为理所当然 [T]
例句：
They postulate excessive increase in price.
他们把物价过度增长视为当然。
例句：
Men's terrors in face of the enigmatically dangerous universe led them to postulate the existence of angry gods.
面对宇宙不可思议的危险时，人们的恐惧引导他们视愤怒之神存在为理所当然。
二、词义辨析：
assume,presume,suppose,guess,postulate
这些动词均含为“假设，猜想，推测”之意。assume指有很少或完全无根据的武断推测或不合逻辑的推理。presume侧重以过去经验或根据现实的某些感觉把某事认定为是事实。suppose常用词，意义较广泛，指缺乏确切事实，根据一些现象进行的推测，也可指为论证而提出合乎逻辑推理的某种假定，有时仅表示自己的意见。 guess常用词，指毫无根据仅凭个人主观臆断或碰运气的猜测。postulate指为证实一个理论的正确性而进行的假设。
三、参考例句：
Is this a reasonable postulate?
这是不是一个合理的假设？
They postulate excessive increase in price.
他们把物价过度增长视为当然。
Offe also challenges the postulate of an organized capitalism.
奥费也质疑“有组织的资本主义”的假设。
This is also in accordance with my postulate of radical fallibility.
这也与我的极端易谬性假设是一致的。
The null result was directly related to a central postulate of the theory.
零结果都直接与理论的中心假设相联系。
Moral has become the core and postulate of the corporation organization's competition.
道德逐渐成为现代企业组织竞争的基本条件和核心
Even if we postulate that she had a motive for the murder, it still doesn't mean she did it.
即使我们假设她有谋杀的动机，那也并不意味着是她干的。
Men's terrors in face of the enigmatically dangerous universe led them to postulate the existence of angry gods.
面对宇宙不可思议的危险时，人们的恐惧引导他们视愤怒之神存在为理所当然。
