英['pɒstjuleɪt]美['pɑːstʃəleɪt]
记忆方法
词源记忆法
来自拉丁语postulare，要求，声称，断言，来自poscere，请求，紧急要求，-t，过去分词格，来自Proto-Italic*porsko，来自PIE*prek，要求，请求，词源同precarious，pray，可能来自PIE*per，向前，前行，词源同ford，proceed.引申词义假设，假定等。
verb(动词)noun(名词)
双解例句
verb(动词)noun(名词)
小知识
Assume something or present it as a fact and you postulate it. Physicists postulate the existence of parallel universes, which is a little mind-blowing.
Anyone who has suffered through geometry class is familiar with some of the greatest hits, like Euclid's postulate and the point-line-plane postulate. Those are propositions that have to be assumed for other mathematical statements to follow logically. As a verb (pronounced “POST-you-late”) it describes the act of presenting an idea, theory, belief, or concept.
实用短语
单词用法
词语辨析
assume，presume，suppose，guess，postulate。这些动词都含为“假设，猜想，推测”的意思。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。