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PHR-MODAL
(按計劃或期望)應當，應該，須
If you say that something is supposed to happen, you mean that it is planned or expected. Sometimes this use suggests that the thing does not really happen in this way.
例句
He produced a handwritten list of nine men he was supposed to kill...
他拿出了一份手寫的名單，上面列有 9 個他應該要殺死的人。
Public spending is supposed to fall, not rise, in the next few years.
在接下來的幾年里，政府開支應該會下降，而不是上升。
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PHR-MODAL
本應該(發生而沒有發生)
If something was supposed to happen, it was planned or intended to happen, but did not in fact happen.
例句
He was supposed to go back to Bergen on the last bus, but of course the accident prevented him...
他本來要乘最后一班汽車回卑爾根，但當然，這起事故使他沒能回去。
The first debate was supposed to have been held on Tuesday.
第一場辯論本該在星期二就舉行了。
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PHR-MODAL
認為;覺得;相信
If you say that something is supposed to be true, you mean that people say it is true but you do not know for certain that it is true.
例句
'The Whipping Block' has never been published, but it's supposed to be a really good poem...
《鞭笞刑具》還從未發表過，但大家認為它是一首真正的好詩。
'The President cannot be disturbed,' his son is supposed to have told an early morning caller.
“校長不能見客，”他的兒子應該已經這樣告知了一位一大清早就來了的拜訪者。
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PHR-MODAL
(表示惱怒)還是，竟
You can use 'be supposed to' to express annoyance at someone's ideas, or because something is not happening in the proper way.
例句
You're supposed to be my friend!...
你還是我朋友呢！
Don't try to tell me what I'm supposed to be feeling...
別跟我說我到底該作何感想。
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ADJ
誤以為的;誤信的;所謂的
You can use supposed to suggest that something that people talk about or believe in may not in fact exist, happen, or be as it is described.
例句
Not all indigenous regimes were willing to accept the supposed benefits of British trade.
并非所有當地的政權都愿意接受與英國貿易的所謂好處。
...when the rule of law is broken by its supposed guardians.
當法治被其所謂的捍衛者破壞時