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VERB
決定，拿定主意（做）
If you decide to do something, you choose to do it, usually after you have thought carefully about the other possibilities.
例句
She decided to do a secretarial course...
她決定修一門文秘課程。
He has decided that he doesn't want to embarrass the movement and will therefore step down...
他已拿定主意：他不想令運動陷入困窘的境地，因此決心辭職。
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VERB
解決;判決;裁決
If a person or group of people decides something, they choose what something should be like or how a particular problem should be solved.
例句
She was still young, he said, and that would be taken into account when deciding her sentence...
他說，她還年輕，而這一點在對她量刑時將會予以考慮。
This is an issue that should be decided by local and metropolitan government.
這個問題應該由當地及大都市政府共同解決。
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VERB
（事件或事實）決定，確定（某一選擇或結果)
If an event or fact decides something, it makes it certain that a particular choice will be made or that there will be a particular result.
例句
The goal that decided the match came just before the interval...
決定本場比賽結果的進球是在中場休息前一刻打入的。
The results will decide if he will win a place at a good university...
這些成績將決定他能否上一所好大學。
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VERB
斷定;判定
If you decide that something is true, you form that opinion about it after considering the facts.
例句
He decided Franklin must be suffering from a bad cold...
他斷定富蘭克林一定是得了重感冒。
I couldn't decide whether he was incredibly brave or just insane.
我不能判定他到底是英勇無畏還是精神失常。
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VERB
使決定，使拿定主意（做）
If something decides you to do something, it is the reason that causes you to choose to do it.
例句
The banning of his play decided him to write about censorship...
他的戲劇被禁演，這促使他下定決心就審查制度的問題下筆。
I don't know what finally decided her, but she agreed.
我不知道是什么讓她最終拿定了主意，但她還是同意了。