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/prɪˈzuːməbli/ · /prɪˈzjuːməbli/
used when you think something is probably true because of what you already know, even though nobody has told you and you are not completely sure.
大概；想必
核心畫面
You can think of it as filling in a blank with the most reasonable guess. Nobody told you the answer, but what you already know points strongly one way — the lights are off, so presumably they have gone home. The word marks the sentence as your , not as reported fact.
可以想成：你手上有一些已知的線索，但沒有人正式告訴你答案，於是你依線索把空格填上最合理的那一個。燈全暗了——pres…更多收起
可以想成：你手上有一些已知的線索，但沒有人正式告訴你答案，於是你依線索把空格填上最合理的那一個。燈全暗了——presumably 他們已經走了。這個字的作用是替整句話貼一張標籤：「這是我從已知推出來的，不是我聽誰說的」。所以它比 maybe 有把握得多，卻又比 definitely 留了一條退路——說話的人保留了自己可能推錯的空間。原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
presumablyadv/pɹɪˈzjuːməbli/
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Able to be sensibly presumed.
- Presumably, he will attend the opening.
- Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。