Supposing then, for instance--any unlikely thing will do for a supposition--that you and your mother were to have a serious quarrel. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
His supposition was tested on a chur ch steeple at Paris, and, later, on the Puy de D?me, a mountain in Au vergne. 李贝.西洋科学史.
It is impossible, on any other supposition, to account, situated as she is, for her execution to a deed of any kind being wanted at all. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
It is a more probable supposition than murder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
The object or cause of this pleasure is, by the supposition, related to self, or the object of pride. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
When disproved, it is shown to have been a false supposition; when proved, it is no longer hypothetic. 李贝.西洋科学史.
But that this latter supposition is absurd, I easily convince myself by the consideration of my clear ideas. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Such a supposition would be justified from Section 102. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
The supposition of the continued existence of sensible objects or perceptions involves no contradiction. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
It is but a supposition, Mr Wegg. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I can answer these questions and objections only on the supposition that the geological record is far more imperfect than most geologists believe. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
All this I was forced to define and describe by putting cases and making suppositions. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Lydgate felt uncomfortable under these kindly suppositions. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Why then look any farther, or multiply suppositions without necessity? 戴维·休谟.人性论.
The absurdity of the two last suppositions proves sufficiently the veracity of the firSt. Nor is there any fourth opinion. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
But, say that the event was to be, as the event fell out, and how idle are such suppositions! 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
He let the kindly suppositions pass. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
I cannot conceive how such trivial qualities of the fancy, conducted by such false suppositions, can ever lead to any solid and rational system. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
But if we deny this, we must make one of the two following highly improbable suppositions. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
I think it was you who were first hasty in your false suppositions about my feeling, said Dorothea, in the same tone. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.