英 [ˌæsəˈteɪn] 美 [ˌæsərˈteɪn]
v. 查明，确定
第三人称单数ascertains
现在分词ascertaining
过去式ascertained
过去分词ascertained
ascertain /ˌæsəˈteɪn/ CET6 TEM8 [ ascertaining ascertained ascertains ]
及物动词 If you ascertain the truth about something, you find out what it is, especially by making a deliberate effort to do so. (尤指经过努力) 查明
Through doing this, the teacher will be able to ascertain the extent to which the child understands what he is reading.
通过这样做，老师将能确定这个孩子对他正在读的内容的理解程度。
Once they had ascertained that he was not a spy, they agreed to release him.
一查明他不是间谍，他们就同意了释放他。
learn or discover with certainty
确定-引用次数：190
Because the influence of technology progress on the labor supply is ascertain, the employment level is decided by labor demand.
由于技术进步对劳动供给具有确定性的增加效应,所以,技术进步对就业水平的作用决定于其对劳动需求的不确定性影响。
参考来源技术进步的就业效应
查明-引用次数：14
检察机关依法(According to the law)审理查明(Ascertain) ：
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... purportedly adv. 据称 ascertain v. 弄清，确定，查明 brandishing v. 挥舞( brandish的现在分词 )，炫耀 ...
... rival v.抗拒，与……抗衡 ascertain v.判断 Passage 2 第一段 ...
ascertainable 可查明的；可确定的
确定；查明；探知
It can be difficult to ascertain the facts.
可能难以查明事实真相。
Through doing this, the teacher will be able to ascertain the extent to which the child understands what he is reading.
通过这样做，老师将能确定这个孩子对他正在读的内容的理解程度。
Cricket keeps an off-field umpire for boundary calls, and to ascertain whether batsmen are run out and if catches are real.
板球有一个场外的裁判来判定边界，并确定击球手是否出局，接球是否真实。
Thus,he says,it is not possible to ascertain who is responsible for the shelling or to make a definitive casualty count.
VOA : standard.2009.05.11
And he finally does ascertain that Apollo is angry with the Greeks because Agamemnon took a maiden from her father, and that father was a priest of Apollo.
占卜的结果是,阿波罗对希腊人发怒了,因为阿伽门农抢了自己父亲的女仆,而他父亲是阿波罗的大祭司
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It's seeking to ascertain the meaning of events to draw larger philosophical, ideological conclusions from the events of history, and to point to the larger purpose or design of history, not to say just what happened, but to say why it happened and what it means for us today that it did happen.
它致力于查明事件的意义,得出哲学性的思想性的结论，从历史事件中，并且指出历史图景中的宏观目的，不说发生了什么，而阐明为什么它会发生,而它发生了对于今天的我们有何意义。
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking in Parliament in Berlin, is calling for patience to ascertain precisely what happened while defending her country's military mission in Afghanistan.
VOA : standard.2009.09.08
It became the job of Alec Station to ascertain what they were up to.
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One conundrum associated with badges in the past was how to ascertain consistent validity and security.
It could also have been used to ascertain if one BCS conference should be dropped.
ascertain是一个英文单词，动词，作动词时意为“确定；查明；探知”。