2014年英文翻译考试初级口译：基础口译句型（4）

　　on the premise / ground / prerequisite / proposition / hypothesis / presuposition that 基于一个前提… (假设类经典句)

　　中国政府在宣布实行和平统一的方针时，是基于一个前提，即当时的台湾当局坚持世界上只有一个中国，台湾是中国的一部分。

　　The Chinese declared to implement the policy of peaceful reunification on the premise that the then Taiwan authorities maintained that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is only one part of China.

　　Advice to investors was based on the premise that interest rates would continue to fall.

　　对投资者的建议是以利率会继续下跌为根据的。