Assume /Assumption

v/n: ①假定, 设想 ②采取 ③呈现 ④承担

Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. (名)假定，假设

这种行为被看作是“人之长情”，其潜在的假定其他动物不可能具有如此高度发达的不公平意识。

What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real. (动)认为

商人们自认为的他们所领导的生产力革命是否确有其事，这一点更加难以确定。

As is true of any developed society, in America a complex set of cultural signals, assumptions, and conventions underlies all social interrelationships.

(名)信念，假定

同任何发达国家一样，一系列复杂的文化特征，信念和习俗构成了美国所有社会交往的基础。