decide
verbWord Family
- decide verb
- decision noun (≠ indecision)
- decisive adjective (≠ indecisive)
- undecided adjective
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they decide | |
| he / she / it decides | |
| past simple decided | |
| past participle decided | |
| -ing form deciding |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to think carefully about the different possibilities that are available and choose one of them 對…作出抉擇；決定；選定 It's up to you to decide. 這事由你來決定吧。 You will have to decide soon. 你必須馬上作決定。 I can't tell you what to do—you'll have to decide for yourself. 我不能告訴你該做什麽，你得自己決定。 - decide to do something
We've decided not to go away after all. 我們到底還是決定不離開。 Why did you decide to look for a new job? 你爲什麽決定找一份新工作？ She gave up politics and decided instead to focus on charity work. 她放棄了政治，而是決定專注於慈善工作。 - decide (that)…
The government has already decided that the law needs to be changed. 政府已經決定法律需要修改。 She decided that she wanted to live in France. 她決定要住在法國。 - decide what, whether, etc…
You have the right to decide what you want to do. 你有權決定你想做什麽。 I can't decide what to wear. 我拿不定主意穿什麽。 She couldn’t decide whether he was telling the truth or not. 她不能決定他是否說實話。 - decide between A and B
It was difficult to decide between the two candidates. 很難在這兩個候選人之間決定取舍。 - decide against something
She finally decided against a career in medicine. 她最終決定不從事醫學職業。 - decide against doing something
They decided against taking legal action. 他們決定不提起訴訟。 - decide something
Sales figures will ultimately decide the future of these types of games. 銷售數字將最終決定這類遊戲的未來。 We might be hiring more people but nothing has been decided yet. 我們或許會再多僱些人，不過現在什麽都還沒定下來。 The venue for the concert has yet to be decided. 音樂會的地點尚未決定。 - it is decided (that)…
It was decided that the school should purchase new software. 已經決定學校要購買新軟件。
More Like This Verbs usually followed by infinitivesVerbs usually followed by infinitivesExtra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsa1You choose—I can't decide. 你來選吧，我拿不定主意。 It's time to decide whether you want to continue. 是時候決定要不要繼續了。 We've reluctantly decided to sell the house. 我們已經很不情願地決定賣掉房子。 They had unanimously decided to go with the captain's plan. 他們一致決定執行船長的計劃。 The exact time of the meeting is still to be decided. 開會的具體時間待定。 They decided in favour of reducing the fees. 他們決定減低費用。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- eventually
- finally
- ultimately
- …
- be able to
- be unable to
- cannot
- …
- against
- between
- in favour/favor of
- …
- decide for yourself
- the task of deciding something
- to be decided
- …
- [transitive, intransitive] (
law 法律 to make an official or legal judgement 裁決；判決 - decide something
The case will be decided by a jury. 這案件將由陪審團裁決。 - decide for/in favour of somebody | decide in somebody’s favour
The Appeal Court decided in their favour. 上訴法院作出了有利於他們的裁定。 - decide against somebody
It is always possible that the judge may decide against you. 法官判你敗訴總是有可能的。 - decide on something
He challenged her right as governor to decide on the matter. 作爲理事她是否有權決斷此事，他提出了質疑。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- eventually
- finally
- ultimately
- …
- be able to
- be unable to
- cannot
- …
- against
- between
- in favour/favor of
- …
- decide for yourself
- the task of deciding something
- to be decided
- …
- decide something
- [transitive]
to affect the result of something 影響（或決定）…的結果 - [transitive]
to be the reason why somebody does something 成爲（某人）做某事的原因 For most customers, price is the deciding factor. 對大多數顧客來說，價格是決定性因素。 - decide somebody (to do something)
They offered me free accommodation for a year, and that decided me. 他們願意免費爲我提供一年的住宿，這就使我下定了決心。 - decide something (for somebody)
That decided it for me: I wasn't carrying my bike back up those stairs. 這讓我作出了決定：我才不會把自行車搬上那些樓梯。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘bring to a settlement’): from French décider, from Latin decidere ‘determine’, from de- ‘off’ + caedere ‘cut’.