If connections can be bought, a basic premise of democratic society—that all are equal in treatment by government—is undermined.

如果能买到人脉，那民主社会的一个基本前提——政府平等对待所有人——就被破坏了。

Its basic premise is that thoughts drive emotion.

基本前提是思想驱动感情。

The basic premise of happiness is simply respect.

幸福的基本条件，其实很简单，是尊重。

This is the basic premise behind the evolutionary approach to RUP.

这是RUP的演进方法背后的基本前提。

His basic premise was: 'this is me, take it or leave it,' so we left it.

他的基本前提是：这就是我，要我或不要，'所以，我们没有要他。