及物动词

名词

道别

Car Crash-(车祸)

check-up-(身体检查)

1. (常指坏事的)原因，诱因
The cause of an event, usually a bad event, is the thing that makes it happen.

2. 引起;导致
To cause something, usually something bad, means to make it happen.

3. 理由;缘由
If you have cause for a particular feeling or action, you have good reasons for feeling it or doing it.

4. 事业;追求;目标;理想
A cause is an aim or principle which a group of people supports or is fighting for.

5. 因果;因果关系
You use cause and effect to talk about the way in which one thing is caused by another.

6. (为了特定目的)与…联手，与…配合
If one group of people makes common cause with another, they act together in order to achieve a particular aim even though their aims and beliefs are normally very different.

7. 为了公益事业;为了行善
If you say that something is in a good cause or for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity.

1. any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

Synonym: causal agentcausal agency

2. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

e.g. he supported populist campaigns
they worked in the cause of world peace
the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
the movement to end slavery
contributed to the war effort

Synonym: campaigncrusadedrivemovementeffort

3. a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy

e.g. the family brought suit against the landlord

Synonym: lawsuitsuitcasecausa

4. a justification for something existing or happening

e.g. he had no cause to complain
they had good reason to rejoice

Synonym: reasongrounds

5. events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something

e.g. they are trying to determine the cause of the crash