based on situations or ideas that are possible and imagined rather than real and true 假设的;假定的 a hypothetical question/situation/example 假定的问题/情况/例子 Let us take the hypothetical case of Sheila, a mother of two… 我们且举关于希拉这个假定的例子,她是一位有两个孩子的母亲… I wasn't asking about anybody in particular—it was a purely hypothetical question. 我并没有问到具体某个人,那不过是个纯粹假设性的问题。
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