Propose
[prə'pəʊz] or [prə'poz]
解释:
(verb.) make a proposal, declare a plan for something; 'the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax'.
(verb.) ask (someone) to marry you; 'he popped the question on Sunday night'; 'she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months'; 'The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman'.
录入:谢里夫--From WordNet
解释:
(v.) To set forth.
(v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
(v.) To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.
(v. i.) To speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
(v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.
(n.) Talk; discourse.
亚伦编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Offer (for consideration), proffer, tender, propound, enounce, present, suggest, recommend, move, hold out.
v. n. [Recent.] Intend, design, mean, purpose, have the intention, propose to one's self.
杰拉尔德编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Offer, tender, proffer, bring_forward, purpose, intend, mean, propound, move,design,[See {[OKFKB]?}]
弗朗西丝编辑
解释:
v.t. to put forward or offer for consideration &c.: to purpose or intend: (obs.) to place out state utter discourse: (Shak.) to face confront.—v.i. to form an intention or design: to offer especially marriage: (Shak.) to converse—n. (obs.) talk discourse.—n. Propō′sal anything proposed: terms or conditions proposed.—n. Propō′ser.
手打:曼弗雷德
例句:
- What do you propose to do with it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Mr Lightwood would propose to me, if I would let him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- What do you propose to do, Maurice? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- If he has any expectations it is due to the fact that I have never wasted money, and I do not propose to begin to do so now. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I do so propose, replied Isaac, bowing in all humility, if it please your reverend valour. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You propose, replied I, to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- So, if you say yes, I'll just go up-stairs and propose it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- I accordingly assembled my troop, and proposed to them this retrograde movement, instead of the continuation of our journey to Auxerre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I now proceed to the second remarkable circumstance, which I proposed to take notice of. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It was proposed also to have submarine guns suspended from each bow. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- When it was thus settled on her sister's side, Emma proposed it to her friend, and found her very persuadable. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Upon my proposing to read them, she went to the piano. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Sherman had written a letter to Banks, proposing a co-operative movement with him against Shreveport, subject to my approval. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Who dares insult me by proposing such a thing? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I before proved to you the absurdity of a single woman of your age proposing to accompany abroad a single man of mine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- In proposing to do which, I have had, in fact, an object. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It is of no use trying him with anything less than a full-sized bread or proposing to him any joint in cut unless it is in the very best cut. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Far from that, Diana; his sole idea in proposing to me is to procure a fitting fellow-labourer in his Indian toils. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The grandson, however, being smitten by a sudden wish to see the house himself, proposes to join the party. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mr. George therefore soon proposes to walk singly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- 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.
- Nothing is more admirable than the hesitation with which he proposes the solemn text, 'Until kings are philosophers,' etc. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- For it is this that the Commission proposes to repress, and ultimately to annihilate. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And the criterion which he proposes is difference in the working of the faculties. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Lord Berwick proposes taking a fine house at Brighton for Sophia and Julia, and sending down his plate, man-cook, &c. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
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