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v.选择,选定

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choose为小学词汇   词频:608

词形变化:

动词过去式:chose 过去分词:chosen 现在分词:choosing 第三人称单数:chooses 名词:chooser

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decline  reject    

choose


/tʃu:z; tʃuz/
v (pt chose/ tFEUz; tFoz/, pp chosen/ 5tFEUzn; `tFozn/)
1 [I, Ipr, Tn, Tn.pr, Cn.n/a, Cn.t] ~ (between A and/or B); ~
(A) (from B); ~ sb/sth as sth pick out or select (sb/sth that one prefers or considers the best, most suitable, etc) from a number of alternatives 选择, 挑选, 选取(某人[某事物])
*choose carefully 细心挑选
* She had to choose between giving up her job or hiring a nanny. 她得在放弃工作和雇用保姆两者间作一选择.
* We offer a wide range of holidays to choose from. 我们提供各种旅游度假方式可供选择.
* choose a carpet, career, chairman 挑选地毯、选择职业、选举主席
* We have to choose a new manager from a short-list of five candidates. 我们得从五位候选人中挑选新经理.
* The Americans chose Mr Clinton as president/to be president. 美国人选举了克林顿先生任[当]总统.
2 (a) [Tw no passive 不用于被动语态, Tt] decide (to do one thing rather than another) 决定(做一事而不做另一事)
*Have you chosen what you want for your birthday? 你过生日要什么东西决定了吗?
* We chose to go by train. 我们决定乘火车去.
(b) [I, Tt] like; prefer 喜欢; 愿意
*You may do as you choose. 你喜欢怎么做就怎么做.
* The author chooses to remain anonymous. 作者愿不署名.
3 (idm 习语) pick and choose => pick3. there is nothing, not much, little, etc to choose between A and B there is very little difference between two or more things or people 事物与事物或人与人之间无甚差别.

NOTE ON USAGE 用法
*Select suggests a more carefully considered decision than choose *用select表示所作出的决定比用choose考虑得更为周到
*Our shops select only the very best quality produce. 我们商店都是精选的质量最高的产品. Pick is less formal than select *pick比select通俗
*Who are you going to pick for the team? 你打算挑选谁参加这个队? Choose suggests a freely made decision and can refer to a decision between only two items. (We usually select or pick from a number greater than two) 用choose表示的是自由作出的决定, 可仅指两者之间. (不止两项时通常用select或pick)
*She chose the red sweater rather than the pink one. 她选中那件红毛衣而不要那件粉红的. Opt (for) refers to the choice of courses of action rather than of items and suggests the weighing up of advantages and disadvantages *opt (for) 所指的选择对象是行动而不是项目, 且有权衡利弊之意
*Most people opt for buying their own homes rather than renting them. 大多数人愿意买房子而不愿意租房子.

choose


v past tensechose [tʃəuz (US) tʃouz/
1. Back in the good old days of stable economic expansion — the 1950s and 1960s — a person could choose to do something new, exciting, and creative in life but could also choose to say, "That's not for me:
    回顾过去经济平稳发展的好时光--20世纪的50年代和60年代--人们可能会选择生活中某种既新鲜刺激,又有创意的事干,但是也可能会说:

2. Why did you choose that particular book?
    你为什么偏挑了那一本书呢?

3. Which route did you choose?
    你挑选了哪条路?

4. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.
    情况经常是这样的,许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题,

5. We can now not only choose our marriage partner, we also can divorce that partner at will, subject children to our own adult worship of happiness, and deny the other parent any regular contact with their children.
    现在我们不仅可以选择配偶,也可以任意与其离婚,将我们成人对幸福的崇拜置于孩子的利益之上,也可以阻止另一方与孩子有任何经常性的来往。

6. There was no middle point. They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show."
    两者之间没有折中可言。在他们起居室的墙上挂着一幅字,上面写着一句朴实无华的格言:“生活如雪后初霁的大地。足之所至,迹必留之。”

7. At this time they could choose their favorite boy for a husband.
    这时她们就会挑选她们最中意的小伙子做丈夫。

8. "Choose your fights," she says. "Is it worth 25 or 50 cents to argue with a taxi driver?"
    她说:"选择一下是否要和司机吵架,为25或50美分吵架值不值得呢?"

9. You can choose between A and B.
    你可以在A,B之间做一选择.

10. Much as we may pride ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want,
    尽管我们可以自夸自己的鉴赏力如何敏锐,但我们已经无法独立自主地选购自己所需的东西了。

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