1. 假定;假設;臆斷 If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
e.g. They have taken a wrong turning in their assumption that all men and women think alike... 他們錯誤地設想所有男女均見(jiàn)解一致。 e.g. Dr Subroto questioned the scientific assumption on which the global warming theory is based... 蘇布羅托博士質(zhì)疑全球變暖理論所依據的科學(xué)假設。
2. （權力的）取得；（責任的）承擔 Someone's assumption of power or responsibility is their taking of it.
e.g. The government have retained the support which greeted their assumption of power last March. 自從在剛過(guò)去的三月掌權以來(lái)，政府的支持率依舊未減。
assumption英英釋義
noun
1. the act of taking possession of or power over something
e.g. his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba the Nazi assumption of power in 1934 he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts
Synonym: laying claim
2. the act of assuming or taking for granted
e.g. your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted
3. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
e.g. he despised them for their presumptuousness
Synonym: presumptionpresumptuousnesseffrontery
4. a hypothesis that is taken for granted
e.g. any society is built upon certain assumptions
Synonym: suppositionsupposal
5. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
e.g. on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play