conclude

英语

词源

源自拉丁语 conclūdere (“关上，停止”), conclūdō的现在主动不定式形式。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /kən.ˈkluːd/

• Audio (US)：

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动词

conclude (第三人称单数现在时 concludes, 现在分词 concluding, 一般过去时和过去分词 concluded)

conclude

1. 〈不及物〉结束。
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling：“He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.”

   The story concluded with a moral.

   这个故事以一个寓意结束。

2. 〈及物〉使结束。
   • Francis Bacon：“I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.”
3. 〈及物〉使产生结果，使完成。
   • Shakespeare：“[...]if we conclude a peace[...]”

   to conclude a bargain

   达成协议

4. 〈及物〉做出最后决定；得出结论。
   • Tillotson：“No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.”

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

   根据证据，我断定这个人是被谋杀的。

5. 〈废〉作出最后的决定或判断；判断；决定。
   • Addison：“But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.”
6. 停止，阻碍，限制（常用被动）。
   • Sir M. Hale：“If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.”

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

   A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

7. 〈废〉封闭。
   • Hooker：“The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.”
8. 〈废〉包含。
   • Bible, Romans xi. 32：“For God hath concluded all in unbelief.”
   • Bible, Romans xi. 32：“The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.”
9. 〈逻〉推断（形成因果关系）。

反义词

• （结束）：begin, initiate, start

派生词

• concludable
• concluder
• conclusible

• conclusion
• conclusive

意大利语

动词

conclude

1. concludere的变格。

拉丁语

动词

conclude

1. conclūdō的变格。