What a ridiculous supposition any other supposition is! As a matter of course and as had always been the case, Mr. Cowperwood had a system. When the time came, this check and these certificates would be automatically taken care of. He handed his bookkeeper the check and forgot all about it. Would you imagine a banker with a vast business of this kind doing anything else?"
Mr. Steger paused for breath and inquiry, and then, having satisfied himself that his point had been sufficiently made, he continued:
"Of course the answer is that he knew he was going to fail. Well, Mr.英文原著 · 《The Financier》
If, further, we turn from an abstract consideration of this supposition, and examine practically in the modern world men and women as they exist today, the irrationality of the supposition is yet more evident.英文原著 · 《Woman and Labour》
Again, it is said that they are descended from the Arian Goths who were permitted to live in certain places in Guienne and Languedoc, after their defeat by King Clovis, on condition that they abjured their heresy, and kept themselves separate from all other men for ever. The principal reason alleged in support of this supposition of their Gothic descent, is the specious one of derivation,--Chiens Gots, Cans Gets, Cagots, equivalent to Dogs of Goths.英文原著 · 《An Accursed Race》
On no other supposition was it possible that she should allow her hand to remain thus clasped within his own. He had only to ask. but that was the difficulty. Did a minute suffice for all this? Nay, perhaps it might be more than a minute. 'Mrs Bold--' at last he said, and then stopped himself. If he could not speak, how was she to do so? He had called her by her name, the same name that any merest stranger would have used!英文原著 · 《Barchester Towers》
Was she asleep, then? Nay, was she alive? She was as motionless as death. Had she been murdered, thrown from above, and caught in the tree? She lay too regularly and too composedly for such a supposition. She was asleep, then, and, in all probability, her waking would be fatal. He shifted his position. Below the pool two beetle-browed rocks nearly overarched the chasm, leaving just such a space at the summit as was within the possibility of a leap; the torrent roared below in a fearful gulf.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
Let us now describe a hypothetical case based on the supposition of connecting bridges. Not to work in a circle, we select an important group which has not served as a basis for the reconstruction of bridges; and it must be a group which we feel justified in assuming to be old enough to have availed itself of ancient land-connections.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
That is a ridiculous supposition without a shred of proof to back it up.美剧 · 《Suits》
There are so many suppositions in that argument, Your Honor, I don't even know where to begin.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》