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.
中文解释
1. from PIE root *geus- "taste, choose"; the root that forms words for "taste" in Greek and Latin, but mostly meaning "try" or "choose" in Germanic and Celtic.
实用例句
1. For added protection choose a lipstick with a sun screen.
选择防晒护唇膏来增强保护。
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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。
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3. Knox had taken it on himself to choose the wine.
诺克斯擅自作主，选了葡萄酒。
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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。
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5. The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose.