English Dictionary

take for granted

動詞

無生物 他動詞 特に 慣用表現 人物

(transitive, of a thing) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.

日本語の意味

何かを検証せずに、当然のことと見なす、当たり前と思い込む

We often take for granted the reliability of everyday technology until it fails.

私たちは日常の技術の信頼性を、故障するまで確認せずに当然のことだと思いがちだ。

意味（1）

(transitive, of a thing) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.

Let it be considered a delicate intimation on the part of the historian that he is going back to the town in which Oliver Twist was born; the reader taking it for granted that there are good and substantial reasons for making the journey.

意味（2）

(transitive, idiomatic, especially of a person) To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of; to fail to appreciate, especially something one has grown heavily accustomed to.

These great First Truths, these good and gracious Tidings, these holy and humanizing Spells, in the preconformity to which our very humanity may be said to consist, are so infused, that it were but a tame and inadequate expression to say, we all take them for granted.

takes for granted （ present singular third-person ）

taking for granted （ participle present ）

took for granted （ past ）

taken for granted （ participle past ）