打算要做某事
這次遞出去的是自己的打算：把「我接下來要怎麼做」擺出來讓對方知道，所以它常出現在被追問計畫的句子裡。
intend; plan to · verb · B2
To plan or mean to do something. This use is quite formal and often appears in questions about someone's plan.
打算；意圖
核心畫面
Picture setting something down on the table in front of other people and back: here it is — now you decide. The word is always that gesture of putting forward for a response. What gets put forward changes (a plan, a name, a theory, a question about marriage, a toast), but the shape never does: one side offers, the other side answers.
可以想成：把一樣東西放到桌上、推到別人面前，然後退開一步——東西在這裡了，換你們決定。這個字始終是這個「往前遞出、等…更多收起
可以想成：把一樣東西放到桌上、推到別人面前，然後退開一步——東西在這裡了，換你們決定。這個字始終是這個「往前遞出、等對方回應」的動作。遞出去的東西會變（一個計畫、一個人選、一套理論、一句求婚的話、一次舉杯），但形狀從來沒變：一邊提出，另一邊回應。From the picture
求婚
遞出去的變成一整個共同的未來：你把問題擺到對方面前，然後等一個答案——形狀還是那個「提出、等回應」。
propose (marriage) · verb · B1
To ask someone to marry you, often in a special or planned way.
求婚
提議大家舉杯
提出來的是一個當場就會被照做的邀請：你把它說出口，全場跟著舉杯——同樣是遞出去再接住的動作，只是回應來得很快。
propose a toast · verb · B2
To ask everyone at a party or dinner to lift their glasses with you and wish someone happiness or success.
提議舉杯祝賀
Also in this word
propose (suggest a plan) · verb · B2
To suggest a plan or an idea, especially in a careful, official way, so that other people can look at it and decide.
提議；提出
propose (a motion) · verb · B2
To suggest a plan or a person at a meeting in an official way, so that the people there can vote on it.
動議；提名
propose (a theory) · verb · B2
To offer a theory or method as a possible explanation or way of doing something.
提出（理論、方法）
原始詞典資料6 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。
proposeverb/pɹəˈpəʊz/
- 1
To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
- I propose going to see a film.
- to propose an alliance
- 2
To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
- He proposed to her last night and she accepted him.
- After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.
- 3
To intend.
- He proposes to set up his own business.
- I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
- 4
obsoleteTo talk; to converse.
- HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour; There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the prince and Claudio
- 5
obsoleteTo set forth.
- […]so weighty was the cup, That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.
proposenoun/pɹəˈpəʊz/
- 1
obsoleteAn objective or aim.
- whose aime hath beene to make us not good and wittie, but wise and learned; She hath attained her propose.
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。