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 decisive [dɪ'saɪsɪv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 决定性的, 坚定的, 果断的

  1. The injury to their key player could be a decisive factor in the game.
    他们主力队员受伤可能是这场比赛胜负的决定性因素。
  2. Be decisive, tell them exactly what you think should be done.
    果断些,确切地告诉他们你认为应该怎么做。
  3. The enemy was defeated in a decisive battle.
    敌人在一场决定性的战斗中被击败.


decisive
[ adj ]
  1. determining or having the power to determine an outcome

  2. <adj.all>
    cast the decisive vote
    two factors had a decisive influence
  3. characterized by decision and firmness

  4. <adj.all>
    an able and decisive young woman
    we needed decisive leadership
    she gave him a decisive answer
  5. unmistakable

  6. <adj.all>
    had a decisive lead in the polls
  7. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

  8. <adj.all>
    a critical point in the campaign
    the critical test


Decisive \De*ci*sive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]cisif. See {Decision}.]
1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or
controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy;
final; conclusive. ``A decisive, irrevocable doom.''
--Bates. ``Decisive campaign.'' --Macaulay. ``Decisive
proof.'' --Hallam.

2. Marked by promptness and decision.

A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive
character. --J. Foster.

Syn: Decided; positive; conclusive. See {Decided}. --
{De*ci"sive*ly}, adv. -- {De*ci"sive*ness}, n.

  1. The steep drop in the price of oil proved decisive for many of both the best-performing and worst-performing stocks of 1986 on the New York Stock Exchange.
  2. To a considerable degree, of course, this results from his decisive leadership of the nation in the Gulf War and his ensuing popularity.
  3. "I don't think you could single out any one thing and say this is the decisive factor.
  4. "They are more decisive.
  5. The United States has been the strongest proponent of decisive action against Noriega, but other OAS countries maintain that the group should stay out of what is an essentially internal Panamanian matter.
  6. In both California and New Jersey, about one in seven Democratic voters told NBC they would rather have Mr. Bush in the White House in the event of a sudden crisis that required swift, decisive action.
  7. The decisive vote came on the first amendment, when the Jackson forces sought to append their basic budget plan to the Democratic blueprint.
  8. The battle of Kursk, in 1943, was the largest tank engagement in history, and ranks with the more famous battle of Stalingrad as a decisive defeat for the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.
  9. The fear here is that if Iran can do this well in what it insists isn't the final offensive, then the next two months could bring even bigger, bloodier and perhaps more decisive Iranian attacks.
  10. It's part of our backwardness." Others feel Collor has accurately read a public desire for an active, decisive president.
  11. The only way for the party now is to take decisive steps in favor of the working class."
  12. A moratorium earlier this year on two-thirds of the country's foreign debt, initially portrayed as a decisive stand to ensure Brazil's future growth, has fizzled into a tentative accord with creditors that appears to change nothing.
  13. And none of the major problems seem likely to have a quick or decisive resolution.
  14. A balance or deficit after seven years of surpluses would mark a decisive change in the fundamentals of cocoa, she said.
  15. "The application of pre-judgment attachments of assets is a firm and decisive action.
  16. The group which includes the United States, Japan, West Germany Britain, France, Italy and Canada commands decisive voting power in the World Bank.
  17. Iraq's military threat, he says, "won't be decisive" in shaping the Pentagon's plans for spending next year.
  18. Although the jets never fired a shot, it is widely believed that U.S. intervention was decisive in defeating the mutiny because of the psychological impact of such strong American support for Mrs. Aquino.
  19. She also has yet to take decisive action against the Communist insurgency.
  20. The Journal's panelists aren't nearly so confident in trying to estimate the long-range implications of Mr. Bush's Mideast policy, except to agree that it will turn out to be markedly decisive one way or another.
  21. At the same time, they express clear dissatisfaction with the lack of decisive actions where they are needed.
  22. "Hopefully, I have a few years left, I'm only 41," Quayle said. "That's something they (voters) will think about, but I don't believe it will be a decisive factor.
  23. But until there is a sharp and decisive downward move in German interest rates Paris looks unlikely to fulfil the promise of earlier this year.
  24. The leadership contest will be a decisive test of the strength of the modernisers. The battleground will be the economy.
  25. Polls published Thursday showed Kaifu's popularity in a sharp dive, largely because of the perception that he is waffling on a decisive issue for Japan in the Persian Gulf standoff.
  26. But as long as it is stalemated by hard-liners, no decisive breakthrough in Taiwan-China negotiations is likely.
  27. Thought for today: "The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterwards have a decisive influence over what happens over long periods of time." _ Hannah Arendt, American writer (1906-1975).
  28. Even cumulatively, they do not appear to change the picture in a decisive way.
  29. The ads may have had a decisive influence on the outcome of the vote, he said.
  30. The second battle, fought over a three-day span in August 1862, saw a bloody, decisive Confederate victory that set the stage for Rebel attacks on the North.
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