choose
英 [tʃuːz]
美 [tʃuz]
助記提示
1. from PIE root *geus- "taste, choose"; the root that forms words for "taste" in Greek and Latin, but mostly meaning "try" or "choose" in Germanic and Celtic.
中文詞源
choose 選擇來自PIE*geus, 選擇，品嚐，詞源同gusto, disgust.
英文詞源
- choose
- choose: [OE] Choose is a verb of ancient pedigree. It can be traced back to the prehistoric Indo-European base *geus-, whose descendants in other Indo-European languages include Latin gustus ‘taste’, source of English gusto and gustatory and French goût. Its Germanic offshoot, *kiusan, produced a diversity of forms in the early Middle Ages, including Old English cēosan, but most of them, apart from English choose and Dutch kiezen, have now died out.
Germanic had an alternative version of the verb, however, *kausjan, and this was borrowed into Gallo-Roman as causīre, which provided the basis of Old French choisir ‘choose’, and hence of chois, source of English choice.
=> choice, gusto - choose (v.)
- Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic *keus- (cognates: Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root *geus- "to taste, relish" (see gusto). Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200.
雙語例句
- 1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.
- 選擇防曬護唇膏來增強保護。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Choose a soft, medium or firm mattress to suit their individual needs.
- 針對他們各人不同的需要挑選柔軟、軟硬適中或者堅硬的床墊。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Knox had taken it on himself to choose the wine.
- 諾克斯擅自作主，選了葡萄酒。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The route that the boatmen choose varies according to the water level.
- 船夫選擇的路線會隨水位的變化而有所不同。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose.
- 默認選項通常是大多數用戶都會選擇的設置。
來自柯林斯例句