| 词组 | decide |
| 释义 | decide Intransitive decide is used with several prepositions, of which on, upon, for, and against are the most common. • ... had also received an offer to play with a Canadian team for more money, but he decided on the Packers —Current Biography, January 1968 • ... impetuously decided on another of his spectacular displays —Woodrow Wyatt, The Reporter, 8 June 1954 • ... led him to decide upon law as his career —Current Biography, December 1967 • ... the issue had been regarded as the gravest the nation had to decide upon in this century —Walter Laqueur, Commentary, January 1972 • They decided against both the tea and the talk — Flannery O'Connor, letter, 5 May 1956 • ... decided against attending any of the public night schools of Pittsburgh —Current Biography 1949 • In any case, events have decided against Mondrian —Harold Rosenberg, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 1971 • The trinity thought it over and gloomily decided for bacon and eggs —Honor Tracy, Irish Digest, January 1954 • ... he had decided for the cloth —Newsweek, 24 May 1954 Sometimes a periphrastic preposition may replace for: • They decided in favor of a bridge —The Americana Annual 1953 Between and about are also used: • ... helps you decide between ... vegetable crops or flowers—radio commentator, 16 Apr. 1975 • ... I have already decided about the value of my work —William Faulkner, 13 Mar. 1958, in Faulkner in the University, 1959 |
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