de·cide
verb/dɪˈsaɪd/
/dɪˈsaɪd/
Word Family
- decide verb
- decision noun (≠ indecision)
- decisive adjective (≠ indecisive)
- undecided adjective
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they decide | /dɪˈsaɪd/ /dɪˈsaɪd/ |
| he / she / it decides | /dɪˈsaɪdz/ /dɪˈsaɪdz/ |
| past simple decided | /dɪˈsaɪdɪd/ /dɪˈsaɪdɪd/ |
| past participle decided | /dɪˈsaɪdɪd/ /dɪˈsaɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form deciding | /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/ /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to think carefully about the different possibilities that are available and choose one of them
对…作出抉择；决定；选定 - It's up to you to decide.
这事由你来决定吧。 - You will have to decide soon.
你必须尽快作出决定。 - I can't tell you what to do—you'll have to decide for yourself.
我不能告诉你该做什么，你得自己决定。 - decide to do something We've decided not to go away after all.
我们到底还是决定不离开。 - Why did you decide to look for a new job?
您为什么决定寻找新工作？ - She gave up politics and decided instead to focus on charity work.
她放弃了政治，决定专注于慈善工作。 - decide (that)… The government has already decided that the law needs to be changed.
政府已经得出结论，法律需要修改。 - She decided that she wanted to live in France.
她决定要住在法国。 - decide what, whether, etc… You have the right to decide what you want to do.
你有权决定自己想要做什么。 - I can't decide what to wear.
我拿不定主意穿什么。 - She couldn’t decide whether he was telling the truth or not.
她无法判断他说的是真话还是假话。 - decide between A and B It was difficult to decide between the two candidates.
很难在这两个候选人之间作出取舍。 - decide against something She finally decided against a career in medicine.
她最终决定不从事医学工作。 - decide against doing something They decided against taking legal action.
他们决定不提起诉讼。 - decide something Sales figures will ultimately decide the future of these types of games.
销售数据将最终决定这几类游戏的未来。 - We might be hiring more people but nothing has been decided yet.
我们或许会再多雇些人，不过现在什么都还没定下来。 - The venue for the concert has yet to be decided.
音乐会的地点尚未确定。 - it is decided (that)… It was decided that the school should purchase new software.
已经决定学校要购买新软件。
More Like This Verbs usually followed by infinitivesVerbs usually followed by infinitives- afford
- agree
- appear
- arrange
- attempt
- beg
- choose
- consent
- decide
- expect
- fail
- happen
- hesitate
- hope
- intend
- learn
- manage
- mean
- neglect
- offer
- prepare
- pretend
- promise
- refuse
- swear
- try
- want
- wish
Extra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsa1- You choose—I can't decide.
你来选吧，我拿不定主意。 - It's time to decide whether you want to continue.
是时候决定是否要继续了。 - We've reluctantly decided to sell the house.
我们已经很不情愿地决定卖掉房子。 - They had unanimously decided to go with the captain's plan.
他们一致决定执行船长的计划。 - The exact time of the meeting is still to be decided.
开会的具体时间待定。 - They decided in favour of reducing the fees.
他们决定减低费用。
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
- …
- It's up to you to decide.
- [transitive, intransitive] (law) to make an official or legal judgement
裁决；判决 - decide something The case will be decided by a jury.
这案件将由陪审团裁决。 - decide for/in favour of somebody | decide in somebody’s favour The Appeal Court decided in their favour.
上诉法院作出了有利于他们的裁定。 - decide against somebody It is always possible that the judge may decide against you.
法官判你败诉总是有可能的。 - decide on something He challenged her right as governor to decide on the matter.
他质疑她作为州长对于此事是否有决定权。
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 The case will be decided by a jury.
- [transitive] to affect the result of something
影响（或决定）…的结果 - decide something A mixture of skill and good luck decided the outcome of the game.
技术和运气结合在一起决定了比赛的结果。 - decide if, whether, etc… A number of factors decide whether a movie will be successful or not.
一部电影成功与否是由许多因素决定的。
- decide something A mixture of skill and good luck decided the outcome of the game.
- [transitive] to be the reason why somebody does something
成为（某人）做某事的原因 - For most customers, price is the deciding factor.
对大多数顾客来说，价格是决定性因素。 - decide somebody (to do something) They offered me free accommodation for a year, and that decided me.
他们愿意免费为我提供一年的住宿，这就使我下定了决心。 - decide something (for somebody) That decided it for me: I wasn't carrying my bike back up those stairs.
这使我打定了主意，我不会把自行车搬回到楼上去。
- For most customers, price is the deciding factor.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘bring to a settlement’): from French décider, from Latin decidere ‘determine’, from de- ‘off’ + caedere ‘cut’.