A year ago,he was campaigning for the presidency on the presumption that Iraq was a big mistake and we needed to focus on Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Any right-thinking printer or any right-thinking publisher would scoff at the presumption of a poet who demanded such a thing.

任何一个思想健全的印刷商和出版商,都会嘲笑你去假定诗人需要这样的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The presumption is that they all reward and demand a certain amount of close reading.

我认为这些诗人及其作品是值得,我们去细细品味并进行深入的阅读研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He says the Obama administration's "It's a presumption that these are obstacles to cooperation, which in fact I think China has enough of their own interests and equities in for example the economic situation to cooperate irrespective of what we do on some of these other issues,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

And lying behind this idea, I think, is the claim, the intuition, that it's a presumption to judge whose pleasures are intrinsically higher or worthier or better.

我认为这一观点暗含了一种主张，认为从本质上判定，谁的快乐,更高级，更有价值，或更好是非常无礼的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This is a presumption of all the poets we'll be reading.

这对我们要读到的诗人有种冒犯的意味。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选