taken for granted

基本解釋

This year, however, the availability of capital -- one of the most important variables in the functioning of an economy -- can no longer be taken for granted.
不過(guò)，今年對(duì)獲得資金的便捷性不能再抱著想當(dāng)然的態(tài)度，而資金的便捷性一直是經(jīng)濟(jì)運(yùn)行中最為重要的變量之一。
Before the speech, none of this was taken for granted, even in the North.
在這次演講之前，即使是在北方，這一思想也絕不是理所當(dāng)然的。
IF AMERICANS have learned anything from their recovery, it is that nothing can be taken for granted.
如果說(shuō)美國(guó)人從經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)蘇中學(xué)到了什么，那就是凡事不可以想當(dāng)然。

"We owe it to ourselves and to those who yearn for the same freedoms that are enjoyed and even taken for granted in Berlin today.
To leave home and to establish a new city for themselves someplace else is not to be taken for granted.
我們不能理所當(dāng)然地認(rèn)為,這是為了建立一個(gè)新的城市
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 古希臘歷史簡(jiǎn)介課程節(jié)選
In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."
在第一段，關(guān)于語(yǔ)言的主張，用批判的方式，認(rèn)為符號(hào)和意思永遠(yuǎn)不能相矛盾，正是這個(gè)主張,被人們認(rèn)為是理所當(dāng)然的，對(duì)于我們所說(shuō)的文學(xué)語(yǔ)言來(lái)說(shuō)“
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

The question is, will those who have been taken for granted keep showing up?
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