1·I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most people take for granted.
我成年后，发现自己对大多数人认为是理所当然之事知之甚少。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Descartes thinks that since our senses can deceive us, we ought not take for granted that what they tell us is really true.
笛卡尔认为，既然我们的感官可以欺骗我们，我们就不应该理所当然地认为感官告诉我们的都是真的。
3·The place has no electricity at all, no photocopiers, all the things that you just take for granted here, they just won't be there any more.
这个地方根本没有电，没有复印机，所有你认为在这里理所当然的东西，都将不再存在。
4·Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.
和其他现代建筑师一样，他使用了金属、玻璃和层压板木材材料，今天我们对这些材料习以为常，但它们在20世纪40年代却象征着未来。
5·It took humans 10,000 years to learn how to grow most of the crops we now take for granted.
人类花了1万年的时间，才学会种植我们现在习以为常的大部分农作物。
6·Today we take for granted that they're horizontal bands of plant communities.
如今，我们想当然地认为它们是水平的条状植物群落。
7·We just take for granted that he needs no supervision for managing his stuff.
我们只是想当然地认为，他不需要监督来管理他的东西。
8·He did it without the connections and advantages many of us take for granted.
他没有像我们许多人那样，想当然地依靠熟人、凭借运气就做到了。
9·These and other inborn capabilities we take for granted are not kluges, they're not "good enough," and they're more than merely smart.
这一切和其他我们想当然的与生俱来的能力并非是拼凑在一起的，并非只是“足够好”，它们何止是智能。
10·There are elements of your business that you take for granted, but prospects would be amazed if they knew the details.
在你的公司里有很多你认为是理所当然的元素，而“前景”却会为它们惊叹如果它知道细节的话。