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Determine French Determiner Latin Sense Firm 774.Determine 英

正面 774.determine
英 [dɪ'tɜːmɪn]美 [dɪ'tɝmɪn]

背面
释义:
v. (使)下决心,(使)做出决定vt. 决定,确定;判定,判决;限定vi. 确定;决定;判决,终止;[主用于法律]了结,终止,结束
例句:
1. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.--Zig Ziglar决定你人生高度的,不是你的才能,而是你的态度。

1. UFO Unidentified Flying Object 飞碟,不明飞行物.
determine 确定,决定de-, 向下。-term, 边界,界限,词源同term, terminal. 即划下界限,明确。
determinedetermine: [14] The central meaning of determine is ‘fix a limit to’, as in ‘determine the scope of an enquiry’. It comes via Old French determiner from Latin dētermināre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘off’ and termināre ‘limit’ (source of English terminate). Its connotations of ‘firm resolve’, a 17th-century development, came via an intermediate sense ‘come to a firm decision on’.=> terminatedetermine (v.)mid-14c., "to come to an end," also "to settle, decide" (late 14c.), from Old French determiner (12c.) or directly from Latin determinare "to enclose, bound, set limits to," from de- "off" (see de-) + terminare "to mark the end or boundary," from terminus "end, limit" (see terminus). Sense of "coming to a firm decision" (to do something) is from mid-15c. Related: Determined; determining; determiner."

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