But another report has cast doubt on the second part of that assumption.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

The first, which I just stated, is that the deflection of that negative particle was just far and away more extreme, much, much larger than that of the positive particle. The other assumption that he made here is that the charge on the two particles was equal.

为了这么做，他又做了更多的观察,首先，像我之前已经说了，测到的负电粒子,偏转要远远,大于正电粒子,另外一个他做了一个假设。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"In our pandemic work, we were really focusing on the avian influenza, mostly in Asia and Africa, so the assumption that the next pandemic would start overseas, far from the U.S., turned out not to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29