| 词汇 | ascertaining |
| 释义 | ascertaining present participle ofascertain ascertain verb[ T ] formaluk /ˌæs.əˈteɪn/ us /ˌæs.ɚˈteɪn/ to discover something: 弄清，确定，查明 The police have so far been unable to ascertain the cause of the explosion.警方到目前为止尚未查明爆炸原因。 [ + question word ]Have you ascertained whether she's coming or not?你问清楚了吗，她来还是不来？ to make certain of something: 确信 [ + that ]I ascertained that no one could overhear us before I told Otto the news.确信没有人能听到我们的谈话之后，我才把这个消息告诉了奥托。 Finding and discovering ascertain break (fresh/new) groundidiom breakthrough bring something to lightidiom catch someone red-handedidiom fossick found geocache geocaching get hold ofidiom pinpoint plumb rake rediscover rediscovery refind refound retrievable sniff uncover Examples of ascertainingascertaining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Some attention needs to be given to incorporating a wider range of methods for ascertaining subjects in order to obtain more representative samples. An evaluation of the family history method for ascertaining psychiatric disorders. Assessments of the initial plausibility of such theories basically involve ascertaining whether they are the products of sound abductive reasoning. Significantly, pain appears in the one domain where legal and religious authorities cooperated - the ascertaining of truth when no direct evidence was available. In scientific methodology, the place of prediction in ascertaining the empirical adequacy of scientific theories has been emphasized at the expense of their explanatory value. The analysis of the top-view sequence focused on ascertaining the significant scales of a standing cross-vortex tube and the changes with time of its shape. Items drawn from the depression and mania sections were adapted so that, rather than ascertaining episodic symptoms, they assessed for the nonepisodic presentation of symptoms. In this second study, we directly examine the role of one methodological factor - the use of proband informant reports in ascertaining relative diagnosis. The main methodological limitation of the study was the reliance on retrospective methods for ascertaining childhood experiences and psychopathology. The problem of ascertaining degree of change is, in short, not resolved. My discussion applies, however, to any legal system wherein moral principles figure among the criteria for ascertaining the law. This has to be an important consideration in ascertaining the social worth of any new medical technique. The meaning of musical performances depends on ascertaining which music was actually played at which events, which is never easy. Ascertaining whether inter-chromosomal recombination is advantageous will also shed light on the evolutionary maintenance of one-step meiosis. Ascertaining the law on a particular issue is just a matter of looking up the propositions that are applicable to the issue. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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