We have to correct our observations for such errors, that is to say, we have to determine the errors in the positions of our telescopes and the errors in the going of our clocks, and then we have to determine what the observations would have been had our telescopes been absolutely perfect, and had our clocks been absolutely correct. There are also many other matters which have to be attended to in order to reduce our observations so as to obtain from the figures as yielded to the observer at the telescope the actual quantities which it is his object to determine.英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
``And it was there in Lexington, in 1879, that I determined to become a minister. I had a good law practice, but I determined to give it up. For many years I had felt more or less of a call to the ministry, and here at length was the definite time to begin.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Determine it by fear of instant death, and by sure hope of everlasting life. Determine it by reasons, and motives, and arguments, and encouragements known to no-one but yourself, and to be suspected by no human being. Name the doomed sin. Denounce it. Execrate it. Execute it. Draw a line across your short and uncertain life, and say to that besetting and presumptuous sin, Hitherto, and no further! Do not say you cannot do it.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
Erling replies, "Thou only, king, shalt determine, and determine so that we shall be reconciled."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
If it were possible to reach Spitzbergen, I was determined to do so. I reflected that every day that passed was telling in our favour. It was not yet the end of July; even in these latitudes winter does not commence much before September, and in the meantime the tail of the Gulf Stream would still be wearing a channel in the ice towards the pole; so, however unpromising might be the prospect, I determined, at all events, that we should go and see for ourselves how matters really stood.英文原著 · 《Letters From High Latitudes》
They were by this time convinced that it was useless to struggle any longer with the powers of evil, that seemed determined to make Woodstock their own. These things happened on the Saturday night; and, being repeated on the Sunday, they determined to leave the place immediately, and return to London. By Tuesday morning early, all their preparations were completed; and, shaking the dust off their feet, and devoting Woodstock and all its inhabitants to the infernal gods, they finally took their departure. More's Continuation of Glanvil's Collection of Relations in proof of Witchcraft.]英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-2》
Right now, I lay low and wait in bushes like determined jungle cat.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Growing up, I saw firsthand the corrosive power that big business can have, and I am determined to check that.美剧 · 《Billions》
I, alone, determine which attorneys lead investigations in the Southern District, Adam, not Washington.美剧 · 《Billions》
You said you were determined to never come close to the line.美剧 · 《Billions》