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to suggest or accept that something is true so that it can be used as the basis for an argument or discussion 假设；认定；认为…属实 Most religions posit the existence of life after death. 大多数宗教都假定人死后生命仍存在。 🔊🔊 She posits that ideas of gender are socially constructed. 她认为性别观念是社会建构的。 They were forced to modify the political premises on which the regime was posited. 他们被迫修改该政权的政治前提。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPosit is used with these nouns as the object:- existence
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin posit- ‘placed’, from the verb ponere.