Choose

(verb.) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; 'Take any one of these cards'; 'Choose a good husband for your daughter'; 'She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her'.

(verb.) select as an alternative over another; 'I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant'; 'She opted for the job on the East coast'.

(verb.) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; 'She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam'.

编辑:基蒂

• She did not choose it, said her daughter, she would go. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I asked Caddy what had made their parents choose this profession for them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Besides, I choose to please myself by sharing an idea that at this moment beams in your mother's eye while she looks at you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There's as many as six, you see, to choose from. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I did not choose to ask any further questions, but turned abruptly away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The hours are your own to choose, after you've done for the day with your house here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In the mean time Ryland had been chosen Protector. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Carriages and horses were provided for all; captains and under officers chosen, and the whole assemblage wisely organized. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Whether truth--be it religious or moral truth--speak eloquently and in well-chosen language or not, its voice should be heard with reverence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We have gone whithersoever we chose, to-day, and have met with nothing but the kindest attentions. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Those who chose to be idle, certainly might. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Here was an opportunity for carrying out his new system with effect, if he chose to improve it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Not that I like humouring Moore; but whatever I do I'll be paid for, and in coin of my own choosing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They're the board's choosing, sir,' returned the matron. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Choosing a moment when none seemed near, Tarzan hastened to his bundle of arrows beneath the great tree at the end of the village street. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• If your mistress wants a maid, she shall have one of my choosing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• A new period of mortal life has begun, and you may choose what divinity you please; the responsibility of choosing is with you--God is blameless. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Let not him who chooses first be careless, and let not the last despair. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There is no law in this country for that; I can't hold you for my wife, if he chooses to part us. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Probably not; but Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work--one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Why shouldn't she be conspicuous if she chooses? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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