hypothesis

Sourse: Chang.N.M.//Polysystem thoery-Its prospect as a framework for translation research//

Original sentence: "Developed in the 1970s, Itamar Even-Zohar's Polysystem hypothesis was originally designed as a theoretical framework for the descriptive study of literature and language in their cultural context."

Definition: noun[C] an idea that is suggested as an explanation for something,but that has not yet been proved to be true;=theory.

(//Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English// Third Edition, 2003)

Mnemonic: 'hypo-',less than usual/normal; thesis, theory; so the whole word 'hypothesis' means the theory does not have the same influence as normal, the explanation has not yet been proved.