| Front | discretion |
|---|---|
| Pron | [dɪ'skreʃn] |
| Back | 【discretion】 n.1.谨慎；明辨 2.自由选择或决定 I won't tell you that time to leave; you're old enough to use your own discretion. 我不告诉你什么时候离开；你已到了用自己的判断力的年龄了。 The house of the meetings will be fixed at the chairman's discretion. 会议厅将以主席的选择而定。 |
| Vocab | discretionthe power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
If you have the freedom to decide something on your own, the decision is left to your discretion. You're in charge. Discretion traces back to the Latin verb discernere "to separate, to discern" from the prefix dis- "off, away" plus cernere "separate, sift." If you use discretion, you sift away what is not desirable, keeping only the good. If you have the freedom to choose, something is "at your discretion." Watch out when you hear the phrase, "viewer discretion advised" on TV or at the movies, you will be watching something quite violent or explicitly sexual. All forms of 'discretion' will appear on average once every 368 pages. discretion discretional discretionary indiscretion |
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