核心畫面

Picture a knot being worked loose until it is no longer a knot — the tangle is broken down and the thing is settled for good. Resolve keeps that double sense of breaking something into its parts and thereby putting it to rest: a dispute untangled, a decision firmed up so the stops, a substance separated into what it is made of.

可以想成:一個打結的地方被慢慢解開,結不再是結——纏在一起的東西被拆開,事情也就這樣定了。resolve 一直帶著這更多收起可以想成:一個打結的地方被慢慢解開,結不再是結——纏在一起的東西被拆開,事情也就這樣定了。resolve 一直帶著這兩層:把東西拆成它的組成部分,以及因此讓它安定下來。爭端被解開、猶豫被定下來成了決心、物質被分離成各個成分,用的都是同一個動作。

From the picture

把心意定下來

被解開的是自己的猶豫:想法本來纏在一起,理清之後就定了,不再動搖。

resolve, decide firmly · verb · C1

to decide firmly that you are going to do something.

決心

開會做成決議

把心意定下來的不是一個人而是一群人:經過表決,事情正式定案。

resolve, decide by vote · verb · C1

if a group of people resolve to do something, they decide it officially, usually by voting.

決議

Also in this word

resolve, solve a problem · verb · B1

to deal with a problem or a disagreement so that it is finished and does not come back.

解決

resolve, break into parts · verb · C1

to separate something into the different parts it is made of.

分解

原始詞典資料21 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。

resolveverb詞源 1/ɹɪˈzɒlv/

  • 1

    To find a solution to (a problem).

    • Exeter. Shall I call in Thambaſſadors my Liege? / King. Not yet my Couſin, til we be reſolude / Of ſome ſerious matters touching vs and France.
  • 2

    To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

    • to resolve a riddle
    • Resolve my doubt.
  • 3

    To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.

    • I resolve to finish this work before I go home.
    • At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
  • 4

    To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

    • He was resolved by an unexpected event.
    • Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]
  • 5

    To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

    • After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.
  • 6

    To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

    • The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill.
    • O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
  • 7

    To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

    • In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region.
    • We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
  • 8

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    engineeringnatural-sciencesopticsTo render visible or distinguishable the parts of something.

    • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
  • 10

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

  • 11

    rareTo melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

    • With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, / Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, / And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: / Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.
  • 12

    rareTo melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

    • When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.
  • 13

    obsoleteTo liquefy (a gas or vapour).

  • 14

    datedmedicinesciencesTo disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

  • 15

    obsoleteTo relax; to lie at ease.

    • resolve himself into all sports and looseness again
  • 16

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.

  • 17

    archaicmathematicssciencesTo solve (an equation, etc.).

resolvenoun詞源 1/ɹɪˈzɒlv/

  • 1

    Determination; will power.

    • It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.
    • Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
  • 2

    A determination to do something; a fixed decision.

    • And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate!
    • His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.
  • 3

    An act of resolving something; resolution.

    • Still, my mother said she loved me and the conversation soon ended, without resolve; possibly, this is also a dialog which is only beginning, or rather continuing.
    • Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.

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