predicate meaning in English
n.
1.【语法】谓语，述语。
2.【逻辑学】谓项，述项，述词，宾词。
3.本质；属性。
adj.
谓语的，述语的；谓项的，述项的。
vt.
1.论断，断言；断定…为某物的属性；断定某物有…的属性 (about; of)。
2.〔美国〕使(声明、行动等)依据于 (on; upon), 使基于。
3.宣言，宣布，声明。
4.意味着，具有…的含义。
5.【语法】表述。
vi.
断言 (of)。 Can anything be predicated about a non-existent thing 能够表述不存在的东西吗？ (We) predicate of the motive that it is good. (我们)断言这个动机是好的。
Examples
- Can anything be predicated about a non-existent thing ?
能够表述不存在的东西吗？ - America's eventual supremacy has been predicated incessantly .
他们一再预言，美国终将称雄于世。 - He rejected all attempts to predicate general principles of morality and law on the empirical nature of man .
他否定了所有试图将道德和法律的一般原则建立在经验人性基础之上的作法。 - That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicated of him .
我们只可预言一下，说他只是一个轻尝浅试、旁收杂览、样样通，样样松的学生罢了。 - The war bruchner was predicating was averted again more because of the compliance of the western powers than because of any reasonableness on hitler's part .
布吕克纳所预言的战争还是没有打起来，其原因不是希特勒的克制，而是西方列强的屈从。