an uncertain belief 推测;假想 they were working on the supposition that his death was murder. 他们根据他的死是谋杀这个推测在开展工作。 [mass noun]their outrage was based on supposition and hearsay. 他们的愤怒是基于猜测和流言飞语。
派生 suppositional adjective 语源
late Middle English (as a term in scholastic logic): from Old French, or from late Latin suppositio(n-) (translating Greek hupothesis 'hypothesis'), from the verb supponere (see suppose)