Decide
[dɪ'saɪd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) reach, make, or come to a decision about something; 'We finally decided after lengthy deliberations'.
(verb.) bring to an end; settle conclusively; 'The case was decided'; 'The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff'; 'The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance'.
(verb.) cause to decide; 'This new development finally decided me!'.
(verb.) influence or determine; 'The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election'.
校對:谢尔比--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cut off; to separate.
(v. t.) To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.
(v. i.) To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.
费格斯錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Settle, conclude, terminate, end.
v. n. Determine, conclude, come to a conclusion, give a decision.
安布尔手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to determine: to end: to settle: to resolve.—adjs. Decid′able capable of being decided; Decid′ed determined: clear unmistakable: resolute.—adv. Decid′edly.
整理:米歇尔
娱乐性解釋/意思：
v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
校對:莫蒂默
例句/造句/用法:
- I find from Riderhood and you together, that there are suspicions against both men, and I'm not going to take upon myself to decide betwixt them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It will decide my career, for if I have any genius, I shall find it out in Rome, and will do something to prove it. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was the sum she had set aside to pacify her dress-maker--unless she should decide to use it as a sop to the jeweller. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It is eminently mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This will decide it, said I to myself; for if he says anything is excellent, or charming, or capital, that His Grace utters, I know what I will do. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But there is a decided grouping of valuable metals, and these can then be readily separated by means of electricity. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I decided to go on upstairs. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- But the light of that day's discovery, shining on these considerations, roused him to take a more decided course of action. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- When you go out close the door, for there is a decided draught. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- After some consideration I decided on writing to the Arnolds, in Yorkshire. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Mr. Hale was utterly listless, and incapable of deciding on anything. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I came to you, my sweet, the moment I saw the doubt, and the necessity of deciding. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I'm so silly that I liked to think no one knew, and while I was deciding what to say, I felt like the girls in books, who have such things to do. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult; that and deciding whom to trust. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- That decides that, Robert Jordan thought to himself. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet the Moonstone on its arrival in London. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- H'm--have you considered the consequences if she decides for divorce? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He stops hard by Waterloo Bridge and reads a playbill, decides to go to Astley's Theatre. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- One is that they may be spun out almost interminably, even, possibly, to the end of the life of the patent; the other is that the judge who decides the case does not see the witnesses. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But, however much you two men fight for her, remember it is the lady herself who decides whom she will take. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
整理:泰丝