based on situations or ideas that are possible and imagined rather than real and true 假設的;假定的 a hypothetical question/situation/example 假定的問題/情況/例子 Let us take the hypothetical case of Sheila, a mother of two… 我們且舉關於希拉這個假定的例子,她是一位有兩個孩子的母親… I wasn't asking about anybody in particular—it was a purely hypothetical question. 我並沒有問到具體某個人,那不過是個純粹假設性的問題。
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