Proposition

(noun.) a task to be dealt with; 'securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition'.

(noun.) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false.

(noun.) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors).

(verb.) suggest sex to; 'She was propositioned by a stranger at the party'.

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• I received a prompt letter in reply decidedly disapproving my proposition, and urging that the lad should be allowed to accompany me. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I shall go to Paris in my own carriage, and establish myself in my own lodgings, said I; and to this proposition Meyler was obliged to agree. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• That is the monstrous proposition which you are driven to assert, if you attempt to associate the disappearance of the Moonstone with Franklin Blake. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Consequently no proposition can be intelligible or consistent with regard to objects, which is not so with regard to perceptions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid was regarded as one of the supreme triumphs of the human mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These propositions will be most readily understood by looking to our domestic races. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The truth of these propositions cannot, I think, be disputed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The company was soon swamped with propositions for sale of territorial rights and with other negotiations, and some of these were accompanied by the offer of very large sums of money. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Then as now, the propositions brought to Edison ranged over every conceivable subject, but the years have taught him caution in grappling with them. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Conceptions and propositions mutually imply and support one another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He shook his head, and assented to all she proposed, though many of her propositions absolutely contradicted one another. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His propositions should be made in explicit terms, so as to be easily understood. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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