参考词典中predicate的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 谓语,本质
a. 谓语的
vt. 断定为,使基于,意味着,断言
vi. 作出论断
词形变化
- 时 态:pred·i·cat·ed, pred·i·cat·ing, pred·i·cates名 词:pred'i·ca'tion形容词:pred'i·ca'tive副 词:pred'i·ca'tive·ly
常用短语
参考例句
- Of or belonging to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
谓语的属于句子或从句的谓语的 - The sermon predicated the perfectiBility of humankind.
这篇布道文断言了人类的完美性 - We predicate of the motive that it is good.
我们断言这个动机是好的。 - He predicates his argument on the facts.
他的论据以事实为基础
- Of or belonging to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
英英解释
2个名词解释
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
[例]- Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
[同] predicate, verb phrase
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- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
[例]- The predicate dog' is predicated of the subject Fido' in the sentence Fido is a dog'
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
[同] predicate, proclaim
[例]- The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President
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- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
[同] connote, predicate
[例]- solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well
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