choose

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※ 提供单词"choose"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

choose 选择

来自PIE*geus, 选择，品尝，词源同gusto, disgust.

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.

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2. Choose a soft, medium or firm mattress to suit their individual needs.: 针对他们各人不同的需要挑选柔软、软硬适中或者坚硬的床垫。

4. The route that the boatmen choose varies according to the water level.: 船夫选择的路线会随水位的变化而有所不同。

5. The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose.: 默认选项通常是大多数用户都会选择的设置。