Determine

(verb.) fix conclusively or authoritatively; 'set the rules'.

(verb.) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; 'the tree determines the border of the property'.

(verb.) shape or influence; give direction to; 'experience often determines ability'; 'mold public opinion'.

(verb.) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; 'find the product of two numbers'; 'The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize'.

(verb.) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; 'I want to see whether she speaks French'; 'See whether it works'; 'find out if he speaks Russian'; 'Check whether the train leaves on time'.

整理:莱昂内尔

• The measure of our self-consciousness will more or less determine whether we are to be the victims or the masters of change. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Could you determine, for example, solely from fingerprints whether the subject was Negro or Caucasian? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I can not determine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It would seem, Adeimantus, that the direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He was a vivisector, made sections of the brain in order to determine the funct ions of its parts, and severed the gustatory, optic, and auditory nerves with a similar end in view. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• What course of action could she determine upon, which could be adopted in eight-and-forty hours? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I was determined not to open my lips, lest my voice should betray me to Berkeley Craven. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• By the time the officer arrived, Sam had made himself so extremely popular, that the congregated gentlemen determined to see him to prison in a body. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Repeated depredations on the frontiers had exasperated the inhabitants to such a degree, that they determined on revenge upon every Indian. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Enough of a subject I had determined not to touch upon. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• This time he felt miserable but determined, while she was in a state of agitation which could not be hidden. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• However, I determined to cut all public amusements as soon as I knew Worcester to be in contact with the enemies of old England. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It ended in my determining to keep the nightgown, and to wait, and watch, and see what use I might make of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The directors, before finally determining on the system of locomotion to be adopted, offered a premium of ￡500 for the best locomotive engine to run on that line. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• As regards loss due to resistance, there is a well-known law for determining it, based on Ohm's law. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Such a situation can be saved only by an immediate outrush of feeling; and on Selden's side the determining impulse was still lacking. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I wish I could feel sure that you are right also in determining to try that last chance with the Count. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But now that we are determining what classes of subjects are or are not to be spoken of, let us see whether any have been omitted by us. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Of course, the horse power to be obtained from a stream determines the size of the paddle wheel or turbine which can be run by it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If _K_ is closed for a longer time, a short dash is made by the marker, and, in general, the length of time that _K_ is closed determines the length of the marks recorded on the tape. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In directing the activities of the young, society determines its own future in determining that of the young. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This--this,' said he, 'determines me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In each color grade, greater brilliance determines higher value over stones of the same color grade with less brilliancy. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We have seen how the colour of hogs, which feed on the paint-root in Virginia, determines whether they shall live or die. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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