名词
1. 假定;假设;臆断
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.
2. （权力的）取得；（责任的）承担
Someone's assumption of power or responsibility is their taking of it.
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