presumably 2019-01-10 每日一词

Day 80   presumably

释义：used to say that you think something is probably true 

=I assume/suppose/presume/guess

例句：

1-The restaurant that has been around for many years recently went out of business, presumably because the rent prices went up too much. 

2-The fourth quarter of 2018 saw massive lay-offs in many technology companies, which, according to analysts, presumably means they failed to raise the funds they needed. 

3-Many analysts wonder whether the Afghan army can sustain such punishing losses in the long run, let alone the higher casualties that would presumably follow if it lost American training and air support. 

练习

1-翻译：教授的航班又晚点了，大概是恶劣的天气所致吧。 

The professor's flight has been delayed again, presumably because of the bad weather.

2-造句：下雨了，这可能意味着我们的外出聚餐要取消了。

It's raining, which presumably means that our eating out will be cancelled.

参考翻译: 

1-The professor's flight was delayed again, presumably because of the bad weather. 

2-Presumably, the bad weather delayed the professor's flight.