| 单词 | cause |
| 释义 | cause I. 1. a. < it should be obvious that it is the conditions producing the end effects which must be regarded as the efficient causes of them — M.F.A.Montagu > < trying to find the cause of the accident > b. < a cause for celebrating > < cause for regret > c. < an employee discharged for cause > 2. a. (1) (2) b. 3. a. b. 4. < what was thy cause? adultery? — Shakespeare > 5. a. now dialect < now to our French causes — Shakespeare > b. obsolete 6. < God befriend us, as our cause is just — Shakespeare > < the insurgents' cause > < he served the cause of truth less devotedly than the cause of party — V.L.Parrington > 7. obsolete Synonyms: < there was more in it than a struggle for wages. The unrest in the towns had deeper causes — G.M.Trevelyan > reason is often interchangeable with cause, but it may add to cause notions of that which explains, clarifies, or justifies or that which suggests a conditioning by human action, consideration, or thought < they admire the rich and titled for the good reason that the rich and titled are themselves — Aldous Huxley > < the reason why the distinguished chairman of the committee feels that the conference report should not be debated — Congressional Record > determinant indicates that factor which determines or shapes the nature of an outcome, issue, or result rather than indicating that which calls it forth or causes it < so habituated have most persons become to believing … that moral forces are the ultimate determinants of the rise and fall of all human societies — John Dewey > < asserts that the final determinant of the lawyer's thought and activity is now the maxim of the best fee — R.D.Mack > occasion refers to a time or situation at which underlying causes may be manifested or activated or, loosely, to an immediate or ostensible factor < in 1837 Baxley became the occasion, if not the cause, of the temporary disruption of the University of Maryland Medical School — C.R.Bardeen > < there exists, not as the occasion of this war but as the cause of a series of wars in which we are engaged, a desire, shared by all peoples, to redefine the concepts of freedom and order — Times Literary Supplement > antecedent refers to that which has preceded or gone before or which may or may not be a cause or determinant of something following < it is certainly true that these twelfth-century windows break the French tradition. They had no antecedent and no fit succession — Henry Adams > < the antecedents of emperor worship lay far back in history — John Buchan > II. 1. < careless driving causes accidents > < trying to find what caused the fire > < cause the water to flow into the new channel > 2. < the president caused the ambassador to protest > |
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