| 词汇 | predicate |
| 释义 | predicateWord family nounpredicationadjectivepredicativepredicatoryadverbpredicativelyverbpredicate Grammar pred·i·cate1 /ˈpredɪkət/ noun [countableC] SLG technical the part of a sentence that makes a statement about the subject, such as ‘swim’ in ‘Fish swim’ and ‘is an artist’ in ‘She is an artist’ 谓语 → subject Examples from the Corpus predicate• The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to.• In addition to pronouns and agreeing predicates, person or participant-role is marked in various other ways.• Existence predicates are prime instruments for making such claims explicit.• Usually, conceptual clusterers employ the natural hierarchy of predicates directly, and make no mention of a metric.• The natural rules for this task have conditions which also include the predicate which checks that two things are different.• This predicate is sometimes given in terms of an entity which occurs in goal states and not in others.• A state of the blocks world is portrayed as an assertion, formed with predicate symbols. pred·i·cate2 /ˈpredɪkeɪt/ verb be predicated on/upon something formalCOME FROM/ORIGINATE if an action or event is predicated on a belief or situation, it is based on it or depends on it 基于某事物，取决于某事物 The company’s expansion was predicated on the assumption that sales would rise. 公司的扩张是基于销售额会增长的假设。 Examples from the Corpus be predicated on/upon something• Much environmental prediction is predicated upon a logical positivist or Newtonian deterministic basis.• It was predicated on a quack cure called powder of sympathy.• Babylonian science was predicated on a tradition of astronomical record-keeping for strictly religious purposes.• Plans for video on-demand and other applications are predicated on imaginary customers who are expected to buy multimedia services.• A text's value rests partly then on the demand for it, and that demand is predicated on previous demand.• The company's $1.6 million budget was predicated on selling 10,000 subscriptions.• It could not be; it was predicated on the business rate.• Samuel Richardson's Pamela is predicated on the need for a servant to resist the master's will in some things.• And yet the redemption of humanity is predicated on this failure. Examples from the Corpus predicate• It is not individual qualities that we ever have occasion to predicate.• The only meaning of predicating a quality at all, is to affirm a resemblance.• In this sense he was predicating his examination upon the operation of a self-regulating system for both state and private economy.• But we never have occasion to predicate of an object the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us.• It was predicated on a quack cure called powder of sympathy.• Social norms, social expectations, are not predicated on abusive childhoods.• It is not predicated on any such view.• Furthermore, the protection from coercion which the market system provides is predicated upon the widespread dispersion of economic power. (1500-1600) Late Latin past participle of praedicare; → PREACH |
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