Ascertain
[,æsə'teɪn] or ['æsɚ'ten]
解釋/意思:
(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.
安德里亚錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Determine, establish, fix, settle, define, certify, verify, make certain, make sure.[2]. Discover, find out, get at.
編輯:帕特里克
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prove, verify, find_out, discover, confirm, detect, determine, learn, discern
ANT:Guess, conjecture, surmise, suppose, presume
編輯:苏珊娜
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- Livius got out of the carriage, and picked the man up, to ascertain that he was alive, as he fell without uttering a groan. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I chatted with everybody who addressed me, just long enough to ascertain that they were uninteresting people. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I wished to ascertain more of what she thought but no: she would converse no more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- They appraised me in their own minds, I saw, and were curious to ascertain what my full value was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In the first place, as we began by observing, the nature of the philosopher has to be ascertained. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Stone in the bladder may be discovered, and the condition and movements of the heart and lungs ascertained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- And yet, in general, nothing can be more easily ascertained. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The evidence is more complete than could well have been expected in a matter which is naturally so very difficult to be ascertained. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This ascertained, Zélie smiled, well pleased. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The Count let him have his way, first privately ascertaining, in case of his own interests being threatened next, where we lived. 威爾基·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. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- An instrument called a cyanometer, meaning measurer of blue, is used for ascertaining the intensity of color in the sky. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I was urged by compassion to hasten to the hut, for the purpose of ascertaining his situation, and administering to his wants. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I was ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
校對:贾斯廷