1·If connections can be bought, a basic premise of democratic society—that all are equal in treatment by government—is undermined.
如果人脉是可以被买到的，那民主社会的一个基本前提，即政府平等对待所有人，就被破坏了。
2·The premise was that the common law of contract lacked sufficient safeguards for workers against arbitrary conduct by management.
其前提是，普通合同法缺乏使劳动者不受管理层随意行为影响的充分保障。
3·Classical geology borrowed a decisive, if unspoken, premise from Newton—the independence of Earth's processes from any astronomical context.
经典地质学从牛顿那里借用了一个决定性的前提——地球过程独立于任何天文环境。
4·Gompers' opposition to national health insurance was partly principled, arising from the premise that governments under capitalism invariably served employers', not workers', interests.
Gompers 反对国家医疗保险的部分原因是出于原则，其前提是，在资本主义制度下，政府总是服务于雇主的利益，而不是工人的利益。
5·Why should I agree with you on that premise?
我为什么必须同意你的那个前提？