| 词汇 | decisiveness |
| 释义 | decisiveness noun[ U ] uk /dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv.nəs/ us /dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv.nəs/ the ability to make decisions quickly and confidently: 果断;决断 She handled the situation with decisiveness and courage.她以果断和勇气处理了局势。 One area in which the Government has lacked decisiveness is planning.该政府缺乏决断的一个领域是规划。 Synonym decision(DECIDING QUICKLY)approving Opposite indecision See decisive "I like decisiveness," she said. "My style is to make a decision and then move forward." I was impressed by Heather's amazing speed and decisiveness. He was praised for showing strong leadership and decisiveness in a time of great uncertainty. Decisions and deciding ascription be make or break for someone/somethingidiom be on the horns of a dilemmaidiom choose clinch conclusion fish or cut baitidiom flip flip a coinidiom get it togetheridiom get something into your headidiom judge resolution sleep split decision swing swing the balanceidiom take it into your head to do somethingidiom take the plungeidiom tightrope Examples of decisivenessdecisiveness Less demanding versions of context-independent decisiveness might require decisiveness only across some suitably defined but not all such profiles. He displayed physical agility and a decisiveness that in the eyes of the residents justified his appointment. The judges can avoid the forced choice between sincerity and decisiveness by withdrawing from the business of adjudication. Instead of requiring robust decisiveness for freedom, they suggest that an individual's freedom may sometimes be overruled by other considerations. At least, this could be advantageous to the extent that decisiveness in decision-making and definiteness in the perception of stimulus relationships are advantageous. If we wish to drop decisiveness, () holds only in one direction, from left to right. Like science, law gains decisiveness by controlling which questions get asked. But this should not tempt us to say, as theorists, that such content-dependent decisiveness is sufficient for freedom. We consider this acceptable because these voters represent that entire jurisdiction - but we recognize that this goes beyond the simple calculation of probability of decisiveness. You may be said to have decisive preferences but their decisiveness is favour-dependent. I chiefly wish to show how absolute borderline cases create a forced choice between sincerity and decisiveness. At the initial stage decisiveness and coordination deserted the men, and consequently eighteen generals lost their lives. The dilemma between decisiveness and sincerity does not occasion any moral uncertainty. But still, the decisiveness of the preference is too circumscribed and contingent to deserve the name of freedom. The decisiveness of the mayor, in particular, was rewarded during the election held two months later, when he received three-fifths of all the votes cast. See all examples of decisiveness 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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