chose

英 [tʃəʊz]

美 [tʃoʊz]

v. 选择; 挑选; 选取; 宁愿; 情愿; 决定
choose的过去式

复数：choses　现在分词：chosing　第三人称单数：choses　

柯林斯词典

He chose teaching as his vocation.
他选择教书作为自己的职业。
The Russian government chose not to decontrol oil and gas prices last January.
去年1月份俄罗斯政府决定暂不放开对石油和天然气价格的管制。
We chose a few of the commonest lexical items in the languages.
我们选取了各语言中最常见的几个词汇。
I chose a few books from the shelf yesterday morning.
昨天早上我从书架上选了几本书。
I could have. I chose not to.
我可以完成的。但我选择了放弃。
She chose Charlie for her husband.
她挑选查理作为她的丈夫。
She chose Maggie to make her up for her engagement photographs
她选择玛吉为她拍订婚照的时候化妆。
In my case I chose that course which I considered right
至于我呢，就选择了我认为正确的那条路线。
Johnson was free to divvy up his share of the money as he chose.
约翰逊可以自行分派他那份钱。
Our parents chose to come here with the hope of bettering themselves.
我们的父母选择来到这里，希望能够改善自己的生活。