Decide

(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'.

校对:谢尔比

• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It is eminently mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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. 科学通论.
• I decided to go on upstairs. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• But the light of that day's discovery, shining on these considerations, roused him to take a more decided course of action. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• When you go out close the door, for there is a decided draught. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• After some consideration I decided on writing to the Arnolds, in Yorkshire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mr. Hale was utterly listless, and incapable of deciding on anything. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I came to you, my sweet, the moment I saw the doubt, and the necessity of deciding. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult; that and deciding whom to trust. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• That decides that, Robert Jordan thought to himself. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• 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. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• H'm--have you considered the consequences if she decides for divorce? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He stops hard by Waterloo Bridge and reads a playbill, decides to go to Astley's Theatre. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But, however much you two men fight for her, remember it is the lady herself who decides whom she will take. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

整理:泰丝