choice

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something. countable,uncountable
    — Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
  2. The power to choose. uncountable
    — She didn't leave us much choice.
  3. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision. countable,uncountable
    — The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
  4. Anything that can be chosen. countable,uncountable
    — You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate.
  5. The best or most preferable part. countable,uncountable,usually
    — The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
  6. Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.
  7. A sufficient number to choose among. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights
  8. Ellipsis of axiom of choice. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
    — 5. ZF* is the theory obtained from the aforementioned axiomatics (without choice) by adding the Axiom of Inaccessible Cardinals to be explained in the next secion; similarly, we get ZFC*.
形容词 adj.
  1. Especially good or preferred.
    — It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
  2. Careful in choosing; discriminating. obsolete
    — that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Cool; excellent. New-Zealand,slang
    — "I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"

词形变化

choices plural choise alternative,obsolete choyse alternative,obsolete choicer comparative more choice comparative choicest superlative most choice superlative choise alternative,obsolete choyse alternative,obsolete choise alternative,obsolete choyse alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
agreement on the choice of court anti-choice axiom of countable choice choice feminism choiceful choice function choiceless choicely choice machine choiceness choice of court agreement choice of forum agreement choice of forum clause choice theory choice word choiceworthy choicy computational social choice dealer's choice discrete choice analysis drug of choice fielder's choice first choice for choice forechoice freedom of choice Hercules' choice Hobson's choice intertemporal choice leave someone no choice lexical choice life choice Luce's choice axiom mischoice multichoice multiple-choice multiple choice question multiple-choice question non-choice nonchoice of choice of one's choice overchoice prechoice pro-choice ranked choice rational choice theory sailor's-choice social choice Sophie's choice spoiled for choice spoilt for choice subchoice unchoice you pays your money and you takes your choice you pays your nickel and you takes your choice
相关词
choose choosey chosen

词源

词源 1
From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.
词源 2
From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).
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