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单词 choose
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Definition of choose in English:

choose

verbchosen, chose tʃuːztʃuz
[with object]
  • 1Pick out (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives.

    挑选;选择

    he chose a seat facing the door

    他选了个面对门的座位。

    no object there are many versions to choose from

    有很多可供选择的版本。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was chosen by random selection to take the drug rather than join the observation group.
    • Ilkley Parish Council has chosen its new leader elect for the coming year.
    • Everywhere was so different that it would be difficult to choose my favourite place.
    • Gloria was surprised to have won the award and is still trying to decide what prize to choose.
    • Our waitress helped us choose all our dishes and we were pleased we took her advice.
    • But the people who have chosen that path probably don't see it as a problem at all.
    • There must be something seriously wrong with a nation that chooses serendipity as its favourite word.
    • Each hymn at the funeral service was chosen because it was a favourite which Mr Ryder would play on his trumpet.
    • Neither will they inspire our most talented people to choose a career in politics.
    • You are not simply choosing a new leader for the party, you are picking the next prime minister.
    • A selection process will now take place to chose the three who will sit on the committee.
    • The first dealer is chosen at random, and thereafter the turn to deal alternates, after each hand.
    • I personally would not have chosen it, but it was his choice to make, not anyone else's.
    • This is an issue of the right of consumers to choose what sort of product they wish to buy.
    • He says he has no idea why the selectors chose him as the team's captain in the first place.
    • Everyone seems to have chosen the person they are supporting for the job.
    • The judges whittled down the entries to nine finalists, and the winner was then chosen by an online vote.
    • Do parents think that when they choose a name for their child they are choosing a personality?
    • In the event of a tied election the President is chosen by a vote in the House of Representatives.
    • Alternatively, you can just choose a good fund and have the manager do it for you.
    Synonyms
    select, pick, pick out, opt for, plump for, go for, take, settle on, decide on, fix on, come down in favour of, vote for
    single out, hand-pick
    set, designate, determine, specify, appoint, name, nominate, adopt, espouse
    British pitch on
    1. 1.1no object Decide on a course of action.
      with infinitive he chose to go
      I'll stay as long as I choose

      我愿意待多久就待多久。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Feel free to choose more or less as you see fit, but please explain why you picked them.
      • He wasn't a golfer himself and he often wondered why he had chosen to live in the middle of a golf course.
      • If only one defender wishes to play then he can choose to invite his partner to defend with him.
      • This option is of course not available if you have chosen not to join the new London General Pension Fund.
      • In the course of this article I have chosen to focus upon ideas of the self and identity.
      • What was even more pleasing, was the number of those pictured who chose to give themselves up.
      • They were simply pleased that the budget airline had chosen to use their local airport.
      • Nations have always been able to choose to what degree they wish to open up to globalisation.
      • When we are selfish, we are choosing to place our desires above those of other people.
      • Of course, we also might never know whether any company chooses to leave Scotland because of high rates.
      • To say we could have done otherwise implies only that we would have done otherwise if we had decided or chosen to.
      • He or she may decide afterwards that the marriage cannot work, and choose to leave it.
      • When a government is elected on the basis of a manifesto which it then chooses to ignore, what is the point of voting?
      • Sometimes I wish I had chosen to be one of those who mend lives but it is too late for regrets.
      • The scheme was designed to be open plan, although some residents have chosen to have small garden fences.
      • The defendants could have taken the course of proving it if they wished, but they have chosen not to.
      • He chose not to attend the Open championship, not wishing to distract his players.
      • It does of course but she chooses to blot it out as if by doing that it doesn't really happen.
      • So, anyway the beauty is of course that I am voluntarily choosing to do this to myself.
      • That was a course that was open to them; that was a course they chose not to take.
      Synonyms
      wish, want, desire, prefer, feel/be inclined, please, like, see fit
      decide, elect, make up one's mind

Phrases

  • cannot choose but do something

    • formal Have no alternative to doing something.

      〈正式〉别无选择只得做(某事)

      Example sentencesExamples
      • As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry.
      • But now in the meantime, I cannot choose but perform these honest duties to you, to whom I have been so deeply bounden.
      • He felt it absolutely necessary to demonstrate the shaky foundations on which materialism stood because he felt that ‘when this cornerstone is once removed, the whole fabric (of atheism and irreligion) cannot choose but to fall to the ground…’
      • When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh.
      • Knowing man cannot choose but pay, how have we cheapened paradise?
      • A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.
      • I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.
      • God has accepted the wager, contending: ‘While man's desires and aspirations stir, he cannot choose but err; yet in his erring journey through the night, instinctively he travels toward the light.’
      • The result being that angels can't choose but simply obey and serve and therefore can't have a gospel for themselves.
      • To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties, to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
  • there is little (or nothing) to choose between

    …之间区别不大(或无区别)

    • There is little or no difference between.

      …之间区别不大(或无区别)

      there is little to choose between the different methods
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Likewise, he found little to choose between the outside world, which he regarded as a landscape of desolation, and his family, which he called, among less pejorative names, a quagmire.
      • And the outcome of their 1998-99 head-to-head suggests that there will be little to choose between two sides who met at the same stage of the competition last year.
      • When there's little to choose between individual candidates, the importance of the presentation - and the presenter - becomes paramount.
      • Does that mean there's nothing to choose between different kinds of agriculture when it comes to sustainable planetary welfare?
      • People may find there is little or nothing to choose between parties because they have similar policies and tax plans.
      • For much of a very dull first half there had been nothing to choose between the sides.
      • Betting on the outcome of matches is a precarious business and, with precious little to choose between these two horses, this is a race for watching only although Swallow Flight gets the call in my book.
      • What this presidential race has shown is precisely the danger of not participating in an election even when there seemed, on the face of it, to be little to choose between the candidates.
      • But with almost nothing to choose between the parties, could the common-sense spectrum get any narrower?
      • How do you make these decisions, these simple decisions, when there's nothing to choose between them?

Derivatives

  • chooser

  • noun ˈtʃuːzəˈtʃuzər
    • Stanley grounds the principle of privacy on respect for persons as active agents or choosers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sometimes, these pickers and choosers even mix in their favorite features of other faiths.
      • As refugees, we are resigned to being subject to charity; we cannot be choosers.
      • But where I think the flaw in reasoning lies is that it puts the focus on the ethical choice rather the ethical chooser.
      • Beggars can't be choosers, but ironically this is the situation in which the second-richest club, in what is now the most lucrative league in the world, find themselves.

Origin

Old English cēosan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kiezen.

Rhymes

abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, suffuse, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse

Definition of choose in US English:

choose

verbCHo͞oztʃuz
[with object]
  • 1Pick out or select (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives.

    挑选;选择

    he chose a seat facing the door

    他选了个面对门的座位。

    no object now it's my turn to choose
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Alternatively, you can just choose a good fund and have the manager do it for you.
    • In the event of a tied election the President is chosen by a vote in the House of Representatives.
    • The first dealer is chosen at random, and thereafter the turn to deal alternates, after each hand.
    • Neither will they inspire our most talented people to choose a career in politics.
    • Everywhere was so different that it would be difficult to choose my favourite place.
    • A selection process will now take place to chose the three who will sit on the committee.
    • You are not simply choosing a new leader for the party, you are picking the next prime minister.
    • I personally would not have chosen it, but it was his choice to make, not anyone else's.
    • But the people who have chosen that path probably don't see it as a problem at all.
    • Each hymn at the funeral service was chosen because it was a favourite which Mr Ryder would play on his trumpet.
    • Gloria was surprised to have won the award and is still trying to decide what prize to choose.
    • There must be something seriously wrong with a nation that chooses serendipity as its favourite word.
    • Do parents think that when they choose a name for their child they are choosing a personality?
    • This is an issue of the right of consumers to choose what sort of product they wish to buy.
    • He says he has no idea why the selectors chose him as the team's captain in the first place.
    • Ilkley Parish Council has chosen its new leader elect for the coming year.
    • Our waitress helped us choose all our dishes and we were pleased we took her advice.
    • Everyone seems to have chosen the person they are supporting for the job.
    • The judges whittled down the entries to nine finalists, and the winner was then chosen by an online vote.
    • She was chosen by random selection to take the drug rather than join the observation group.
    Synonyms
    select, pick, pick out, opt for, plump for, go for, take, settle on, decide on, fix on, come down in favour of, vote for
    1. 1.1no object Decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives.
      (尤指否决其他选项后)决定,愿意
      with infinitive he chose to go
      I'll stay as long as I choose

      我愿意待多久就待多久。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • This option is of course not available if you have chosen not to join the new London General Pension Fund.
      • Nations have always been able to choose to what degree they wish to open up to globalisation.
      • That was a course that was open to them; that was a course they chose not to take.
      • It does of course but she chooses to blot it out as if by doing that it doesn't really happen.
      • The defendants could have taken the course of proving it if they wished, but they have chosen not to.
      • Feel free to choose more or less as you see fit, but please explain why you picked them.
      • He chose not to attend the Open championship, not wishing to distract his players.
      • What was even more pleasing, was the number of those pictured who chose to give themselves up.
      • Sometimes I wish I had chosen to be one of those who mend lives but it is too late for regrets.
      • When we are selfish, we are choosing to place our desires above those of other people.
      • He wasn't a golfer himself and he often wondered why he had chosen to live in the middle of a golf course.
      • In the course of this article I have chosen to focus upon ideas of the self and identity.
      • When a government is elected on the basis of a manifesto which it then chooses to ignore, what is the point of voting?
      • If only one defender wishes to play then he can choose to invite his partner to defend with him.
      • They were simply pleased that the budget airline had chosen to use their local airport.
      • Of course, we also might never know whether any company chooses to leave Scotland because of high rates.
      • To say we could have done otherwise implies only that we would have done otherwise if we had decided or chosen to.
      • He or she may decide afterwards that the marriage cannot work, and choose to leave it.
      • So, anyway the beauty is of course that I am voluntarily choosing to do this to myself.
      • The scheme was designed to be open plan, although some residents have chosen to have small garden fences.
      Synonyms
      wish, want, desire, prefer, be inclined, feel inclined, please, like, see fit

Phrases

  • cannot choose but do something

    • formal Have no alternative to doing something.

      〈正式〉别无选择只得做(某事)

      Example sentencesExamples
      • God has accepted the wager, contending: ‘While man's desires and aspirations stir, he cannot choose but err; yet in his erring journey through the night, instinctively he travels toward the light.’
      • To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties, to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
      • When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh.
      • As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry.
      • A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.
      • He felt it absolutely necessary to demonstrate the shaky foundations on which materialism stood because he felt that ‘when this cornerstone is once removed, the whole fabric (of atheism and irreligion) cannot choose but to fall to the ground…’
      • Knowing man cannot choose but pay, how have we cheapened paradise?
      • I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.
      • The result being that angels can't choose but simply obey and serve and therefore can't have a gospel for themselves.
      • But now in the meantime, I cannot choose but perform these honest duties to you, to whom I have been so deeply bounden.
  • there is little (or nothing) to choose between

    …之间区别不大(或无区别)

    • There is little or no difference between.

      …之间区别不大(或无区别)

      Example sentencesExamples
      • People may find there is little or nothing to choose between parties because they have similar policies and tax plans.
      • Betting on the outcome of matches is a precarious business and, with precious little to choose between these two horses, this is a race for watching only although Swallow Flight gets the call in my book.
      • But with almost nothing to choose between the parties, could the common-sense spectrum get any narrower?
      • When there's little to choose between individual candidates, the importance of the presentation - and the presenter - becomes paramount.
      • And the outcome of their 1998-99 head-to-head suggests that there will be little to choose between two sides who met at the same stage of the competition last year.
      • How do you make these decisions, these simple decisions, when there's nothing to choose between them?
      • Does that mean there's nothing to choose between different kinds of agriculture when it comes to sustainable planetary welfare?
      • For much of a very dull first half there had been nothing to choose between the sides.
      • Likewise, he found little to choose between the outside world, which he regarded as a landscape of desolation, and his family, which he called, among less pejorative names, a quagmire.
      • What this presidential race has shown is precisely the danger of not participating in an election even when there seemed, on the face of it, to be little to choose between the candidates.

Origin

Old English cēosan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kiezen.

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