derive

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derive的基本意思是“起源”,強調(diào)事先就存在于另一種形式、另一人或一事物之中而承襲下來。承襲的方式多種多樣,如遺傳、轉(zhuǎn)讓、捐贈、繼承、推理等。引申可表示“獲得”“取得”,指主動的從某處得到某物,為正式用語。
derive不論是用作不及物動詞,還是用作及物動詞,都與介詞from搭配使用,表示“從…得到或派生”。
derive作“取得”“獲得”解時,可接樂趣、利益、知識等抽象名詞作賓語。
derive from指“起源于”，可以用被動形式表達，也可以用主動形式表達。This idiom is derived from an ancient custom. This idiom derives from an ancient custom.

At every level of the hierarchy, we would use functional analysis to derive requirements and engineering methods to derive measures of effectiveness.
在此層級的每一級上，我們將使用功能分析來派生需求，并用工程方法來得出有效性度量。
These dynamic and static models could be used to derive all the read methods too, if we went through every permutation that you enumerated in your analysis.
如果要一一提供您的分析中列舉的每種排列，則也可以將這些動態(tài)和靜態(tài)的模型用于派生所有的讀取方法。
A person to whom the words have no clear, conscious meaning may derive more from it than someone who reads it as I do, and so I recommend hearing or reading it however you will.
一個對那些話沒有明確的，有意識的理解有可能會比比其他人，比如我讀時從中衍生出很多其他想法。因此我建議，隨你如何聽，如何讀。

It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.
換句話說，它不是，作為結果來自單一的先行的原因。
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As we mentioned in one of the earlier classes, these macronutrients differ in how much energy you can derive from them.
我在之前一節(jié)課提過,身體從不同大量營養(yǎng)素中吸收的能量不同
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We can't actually go ahead and derive this equation of the wave function squared, because no one ever derived it, it's just an interpretation, but it's an interpretation that works essentially perfectly.
從這個方程中,導出，波函數(shù)的平方，沒有人可以這樣做，這僅僅是一種解釋，但這種解釋，能解釋的很好，自從它第一次被提出來之后。
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Designers question the structure of institutions and apply multiple skill-sets to derive solutions to complex problems.
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If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.
If you say that something such as a word or feeling derives or is derived from something else, you mean that it comes from that thing.