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源自希腊语 'hypothetikos'(假设的),经由拉丁语 'hypotheticus' 进入英语,加副词后缀 -ly。
❶ 以假设的方式,表示某事是基于想象或理论而非现实情况,常用于讨论可能性或进行推测。
“Hypothetically speaking, what would you do if you won the lottery?”
(假设地说,如果你中了彩票你会怎么做?)
“Let's consider hypothetically that the project fails, what's our backup plan?”
(让我们假设项目失败了,我们的备用计划是什么?)
hypothetically speaking — 用于引入一个假设性的讨论或问题,表明接下来的内容是基于想象而非事实。
“Hypothetically speaking, if you could travel back in time, where would you go?”
(假设地说,如果你能回到过去,你会去哪里?)