比如,剑桥五中有这样一篇文章“The Birth of Scientific English”, 其中有一句:It lacked the grammatical resources required to represent the world in an objective and impersonal way, and to discuss the relations, such as cause and effect, that might hold between complex and hypothetical entities. 其中的grammatical并不是一个陌生的词汇,因为大家都熟悉grammar这个词;还有hypothetical这个词,虽然难度较大,但是我们经常见到hypothesis,因此可以推断hypothetical有“假设”这一层含义。