The spelling premiss is also used in British English for meaning 2. 在英國英語(yǔ)中拼寫(xiě)形式premiss亦用于義項2。
1. （企業(yè)或機構使用的）房屋及土地；經(jīng)營(yíng)場(chǎng)所；辦公場(chǎng)所 The premises of a business or an institution are all the buildings and land that it occupies in one place.
premise
e.g. There is a kitchen on the premises... 該處有一個(gè)廚房。 e.g. The business moved to premises in Brompton Road. 這家公司搬到了布朗普頓路。
2. 前提 A premise is something that you suppose is true and that you use as a basis for developing an idea.
e.g. The premise is that schools will work harder to improve if they must compete... 前提是，如果各學(xué)校必須參與競爭的話(huà)，就會(huì )更加努力。 e.g. The programme started from the premise that men and women are on equal terms in this society. 這個(gè)項目是以這個(gè)社會(huì )男女平等為前提的。
premise英英釋義
noun
1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
e.g. on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play
Synonym: premissassumption
verb
1. take something as preexisting and given
Synonym: premiss
2. furnish with a preface or introduction
e.g. She always precedes her lectures with a joke He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution
Synonym: precedeprefaceintroduce
3. set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
e.g. He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand