assumption
[ə'sʌmpʃən]
n. 假, 自, 担任, 假装

[] 假, 担

1. The theory is based on a series of wrong assumptions.
   论系错误设想依据。
2. Their assumptions of an air of confidence fooled nobody.
   装十足却欺骗任何。
3. The project was predicated on the assumption that the economy was expanding.
   济展设想依据.

assumption
[ noun ]

1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

<noun.communication>
on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play

2. a hypothesis that is taken for granted

<noun.cognition>
any society is built upon certain assumptions

3. the act of taking possession of or power over something

<noun.act>
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

4. celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church

<noun.time>

5. (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended

<noun.event>

6. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to

<noun.attribute>
he despised them for their presumptuousness

7. the act of assuming or taking for granted

<noun.act>
your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted

Assumption \As*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [OE. assumpcioun a taking
up into heaven, L. assumptio a taking, fr. assumere: cf. F.
assomption. See {Assume}.]
1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the
act of taking up or adopting.

The assumption of authority. --Whewell.

2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing
without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.

This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable
assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of
death to the resurrection of the body. --Thodey.

That calm assumption of the virtues. --W. Black.

3. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a
supposition.

Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong.
--Dryden.

4. (Logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical
syllogism.

5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath.
& Greek Churches) A festival in honor of the ascent of the
Virgin Mary into heaven.