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Careful, thinking or discussion before making a decision, especially a serious one — a jury's deliberation, for example. It can also describe the slow, careful way someone speaks or acts, as if thinking hard about every step.
審議；深思熟慮
組成de- (thoroughly) + a Latin root meaning "to weigh" (related to a scale) + -ation (noun ending) — literally "weighing something carefully."
同家族的字
- deliberateshares the same Latin root meaning "to weigh carefully" before acting
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deliberationnoun/dɪˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/
- 1
The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.
- The oftener the measure is brought under examination, the greater the diversity in the situations of those who are to examine it, the less must be the danger of those errors which flow from want of due deliberation, or of those missteps which proceed from the contagion of some common passion or interest.
- 2
Careful discussion and examination of the reasons for and against a measure.
- the deliberations of a legislative body or council
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。