an idea or a plan of action that is suggested, especially in business 提议，建议，计划（尤指业务上的） I'd like to put a business proposition to you. 我想向您提个业务上的建议。 He was trying to make it look like an attractive proposition. 他正设法使他的计划显得吸引人。
Extra ExamplesTopics Suggestions and advicec1Ring up your agent in New York and put your proposition to him. 给你在纽约的代理人打电话，把你的建议告诉他。 Is that a viable proposition? 那个建议可行吗？ We have a proposition to make. 我们要提个建议。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- attractive
- tempting
- win-win
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- put to somebody
- consider
- accept
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a thing that you intend to do; a problem, task or person to be dealt with 欲做的事；待处理的问题；任务 Extra ExamplesRunning the business was one thing. Getting it to make a profit was a different proposition altogether. 经营管理企业是一回事，要能使之盈利则完全是另一回事。 He's a different proposition from his father—much less tolerant. 他和他父亲不同——他不那么宽容。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- difficult
- tough
- tricky
- …
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(in the US) a suggested change to the law that people can vote on （美国）法律修正议案 - (formal)
a statement that expresses an opinion 见解；主张；观点 Her assessment is based on the proposition that power corrupts. 她的分析是建立在权力使人堕落的观点上的。 The book puts forward a number of extreme propositions about the nature of language. 这本书对语言的本质提出了一些极端的见解。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- basic
- central
- fundamental
- …
- set
- advance
- express
- put forward
- …
- concern something
- relate to something
- proposition about
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mathematics 数学 a statement of a theorem, and an explanation of how it can be proved 命题 First of all we need to examine whether this proposition is true. 首先需要考察这个命题是否成立。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin propositio(n-), from the verb proponere ‘set forth’, from pro- ‘forward’ + ponere ‘put’.