taken for granted

基本解释

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.
不过，今年对获得资金的便捷性不能再抱着想当然的态度，而资金的便捷性一直是经济运行中最为重要的变量之一。
Before the speech, none of this was taken for granted, even in the North.
在这次演讲之前，即使是在北方，这一思想也绝不是理所当然的。
IF AMERICANS have learned anything from their recovery, it is that nothing can be taken for granted.
如果说美国人从经济复苏中学到了什么，那就是凡事不可以想当然。

"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.
我们不能理所当然地认为,这是为了建立一个新的城市
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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，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“
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The question is, will those who have been taken for granted keep showing up?
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