Ascertain
[,æsə'teɪn] or ['æsɚ'ten]
解释:
(v. t.) To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
(v. t.) To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.
(v. t.) To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.
安德里亚录入
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Determine, establish, fix, settle, define, certify, verify, make certain, make sure.[2]. Discover, find out, get at.
编辑:帕特里克
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Prove, verify, find_out, discover, confirm, detect, determine, learn, discern
ANT:Guess, conjecture, surmise, suppose, presume
编辑:苏珊娜
解释:
v.t. to determine: to obtain certain knowledge of: (rare) to insure certify make certain.—adj. Ascertain′able.—n. Ascertain′ment.
整理:维维安
例句:
- Livius got out of the carriage, and picked the man up, to ascertain that he was alive, as he fell without uttering a groan. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I chatted with everybody who addressed me, just long enough to ascertain that they were uninteresting people. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- I wished to ascertain more of what she thought but no: she would converse no more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I had had this explored before, as well as the east bank below to ascertain if there was a possible point of debarkation north of Rodney. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- They appraised me in their own minds, I saw, and were curious to ascertain what my full value was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- In the first place, as we began by observing, the nature of the philosopher has to be ascertained. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Stone in the bladder may be discovered, and the condition and movements of the heart and lungs ascertained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- And yet, in general, nothing can be more easily ascertained. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- The evidence is more complete than could well have been expected in a matter which is naturally so very difficult to be ascertained. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- First, the quantity and value of the land which any man possesses, can never be a secret, and can always be ascertained with great exactness. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This ascertained, Zélie smiled, well pleased. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The intensity of the light was ascertained to be equal to that of 301,400 mould candles of six to the pound, whilst the light of the Breakwater Lighthouse was equal to only 150 candles. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The Count let him have his way, first privately ascertaining, in case of his own interests being threatened next, where we lived. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is true that the abbé mentions the idea, but he throws it out as a bare conjecture, and proposes no mode of ascertaining the truth of it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- An instrument called a cyanometer, meaning measurer of blue, is used for ascertaining the intensity of color in the sky. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I was urged by compassion to hasten to the hut, for the purpose of ascertaining his situation, and administering to his wants. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I was ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Wool was commonly paid as a subsidy to the king, and its valuation in that subsidy ascertains, at least in some degree, what was its ordinary price. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
校对:贾斯廷