determine

英 [d?'t??m?n] 美[d?'t?m?n]

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第三人稱單數:?determines;過去式:?determined;過去分詞:?determined;現在分詞:?determining;

determine 確定，決定

de-, 向下。-term, 邊界，界限，詞源同term, terminal. 即劃下界限，明確。

determine: determine: [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’.
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determine (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.

1. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.--Zig Ziglar: 決定你人生高度的，不是你的才能，而是你的態度。

2. A debriefing would follow this operation, to determine where it went wrong.: 這次行動之后將會有一個任務執行情況報告會，以便確定是哪里出了問題。

3. An astronomer can determine the brightness of each star.: 天文學家能夠測定每顆恒星的亮度。

4. The Baltic people have a right to determine their own future.: 波羅的海各國人民有權決定自己的未來。

5. Testing needs to be done to determine the long-term effects on humans.: 需要進行檢測以確定其對人的長期影響。