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

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。
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。
But I recognised your capability, I chose you.
但我认同你的能力，我选择了你。
She was old enough to absent herself from the lunch table if she chose
她长大了，可以自己做主不来吃午餐了。
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。
They were intelligent and educated, yet they chose to kidnap and kill
他们聪明且有教养，却选择去绑架和杀人。
Two of the members chose to take issue with the chairman on the question of voting rights.
两位委员决定和主席争论选举权的问题。
I could have. I chose not to.
我可以完成的。但我选择了放弃。
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。
We chose this one as the most suitable for our purpose.
我们之所以选择这一个，因为它最适合于我们的目的。