choose

choose 的核心是“在几个可能中作出取舍”，可表示挑选、决定采取某种做法，也可表示偏爱或选择某人担任职位。

💡 记忆钩子

想象你站在一排苹果前伸手挑出一个：这是“挑选”；你又从几条路中定下一条：这是“决定”；如果你更喜欢其中一条路，就是“偏爱”；如果大家把某人挑出来当代表，就是“选举”。

📝 学习建议

先记住 choose—chose—chosen 这一组变化，不要把过去式和过去分词混用。
choose 是动词，名词“选择”通常用 choice；不要把 choose 直接当作现代英语里的名词使用。

📖 中文释义

noun

rare 选择；挑选

📖 指从几个可能中进行挑选这一行为本身，是动词“挑选”所对应的名词义。

💡 通常用 choice，而不用名词 choose；例如“作出选择”应使用 choice 的常见搭配。这个名词义带有方言或过时色彩，不宜在现代日常英语中主动使用。

Northern-England Scotland obsolete
rare 选择权；选择资格

📖 指一个人拥有挑选对象或作出决定的权利，属于旧式或方言用法。

💡 现代英语中通常用 choice 表示“选择权”，也可根据语境使用表示权利或特权的其他词。看到名词 choose 时，先判断文本是否具有方言、历史或文学背景。

Northern-England Scotland obsolete

chooses plural

verb

core 挑选；选择

📖 从两个或多个对象中挑出一个或几个，重点是实际作出取舍。它可以用于物品、地点、方案或人选。

💡 常用结构是 choose + 名词，或 choose between A and B；表示“选择其中一个”时，宾语直接放在 choose 后面。不要把它的过去式写成 chosen，也不要在已经明确的选择对象前随意重复使用介词。

I chose the blue jacket because it was warmer.

我选了那件蓝色夹克，因为它更暖和。

You can choose between tea and coffee.

你可以在茶和咖啡之间选一种。
common 选举；选出

📖 通过投票或正式程序选出某人担任职位或代表，仍然保留“从候选人中挑出一个”的核心意思。

💡 常见结构是 choose + 人 + as + 职位，或 choose + 人 + to do；被选出的人通常是宾语。不要把它和表示“任命”的词完全等同，因为 choose 强调从候选者中作出选择。

The students chose Maya as their class representative.

学生们选玛雅当班级代表。
core 决定做；选择采取

📖 在几种行动可能中决定采用某一种，强调“我决定这样做”，不一定涉及具体物品。

💡 最常见结构是 choose to do something，否定形式是 choose not to do something。这里后面接动词不定式，不要直接接动词的现在分词来表示“选择做某事”。

She chose to stay home and finish her work.

她决定待在家里完成工作。
common 偏爱；想要

📖 表示在可能选项中更喜欢某一个，或表示某人希望得到、采用某种东西；它仍然带有“按自己的意愿作选择”的感觉。

💡 常用结构是 choose A over B，表示“宁愿选 A 而不要 B”；表示想做某事时也可接不定式。这个义项有时比单纯的 choose 更强调个人偏好，但不必翻译成强烈的“渴望”。

Most guests choose the fish over the steak.

大多数客人更喜欢选鱼，而不是牛排。

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📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; ;

同义词集: choose take select pick out

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

上位: decide, determine, make up one's mind 下位: adopt, assign, define, determine, dial, draw, elect, empanel, espouse, excerpt, extract, field, fix, follow, go, impanel, limit, nominate, panel, pick, plump, propose, screen, screen out, set, set apart, sieve, sift, sort, specify, take out, vote

select as an alternative over another;

同义词集: choose prefer opt

I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant

She opted for the job on the East coast

see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way

同义词集: choose

She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam

上位: evaluate, judge, pass judgment

🌳 词源

choose 源自古英语中表示“尝试、辨别后挑选”的词根，后来发展出“选择、决定”等义。名词 choose 是 choice 的北英格兰和苏格兰方言或旧用形式。

From Middle English chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to test; to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti (“to choose, taste”), from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten”), Faroese and Icelandic kjósa (“to vote; to elect; to choose; to prefer”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjosa, kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm; to bewitch”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), French choisir (“to choose”); also Breton diuz (“to choose”), Cornish and Welsh dewis (“to choose”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed; to taste; to eat; to try; to enjoy”), Czech zkoušet (“to taste; to examine; to rehearse”), Polish kuszać (“to eat”), Russian кушать (kušatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”), Serbo-Croatian ку̏шати, kȕšati (“to taste; to test”), Ukrainian ку́шати (kúšaty, “to taste; to eat”), куштува́ти (kuštuváty, “to taste”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (zaoša, “pleasure”), Baluchi and Pashto دوست (dost, “friend”), Northern Kurdish and Zazaki dost (“friend”), Persian دوسْت (dōst / dust, “friend; boyfriend or girlfriend; loved”), Sanskrit जुषते (juṣate, “to enjoy”).

🔄 变式

- imperat choosed 1st_sg choosedst archaic chooses plural choosest archaic chooseth archaic choosing present chose 1st_sg chosen past chosest archaic

🏷 单词标签 & 词根