Hypothetical

(a)

based on situations or ideas which are possible and imagined rather than real and true 假设的；假定的

e.g. a hypothetical question/situation/example

假定的问题/情况/例子

e.g. Let us make the hypothetical case of Sheila, a mother of two...

我们且举关于希拉这个假定的例子，她是一位有两个孩子的母亲...

e.g. I wasn't asking about anybody in particular—it was purely hypothetical question.

我没有问到具体某个人——那不过是个纯粹假设性的问题。

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