decide
verbWord Family
- decide verb
- decision noun (≠ indecision)
- decisive adjective (≠ indecisive)
- undecided adjective
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they decide | |
| he / she / it decides | |
| past simple decided | |
| past participle decided | |
| -ing form deciding |
- [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. 你必须马上作决定。 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? 你为什么决定找一份新工作？ She gave up politics and decided instead to focus on charity work. 她放弃了政治，而是决定专注于慈善工作。 - decide (that)…
The government has already decided that the law needs to be changed. 政府已经决定法律需要修改。 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. 你有权决定你想做什么。 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. 她不能决定他是否说实话。 - 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决定取舍。 - decide against something
She finally decided against a career in medicine. 她最终决定不从事医学职业。 - 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. 销售数字将最终决定这类游戏的未来。 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. 音乐会的地点尚未决定。 - 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 infinitivesExtra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsa1You 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. 是时候决定要不要继续了。 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
- …
- [transitive, intransitive] (
law 法律 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. 作为理事她是否有权决断此事，他提出了质疑。
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
- [transitive]
to affect the result of something 影响（或决定）…的结果 - [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. 这让我作出了决定：我才不会把自行车搬上那些楼梯。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘bring to a settlement’): from French décider, from Latin decidere ‘determine’, from de- ‘off’ + caedere ‘cut’.