reason [ 'ri:zn] n.理由；理性 vi.推理
reason [ 'ri:zn] vt.辩论，讨论
by reason of 由于，因为
by reason that 因为…，由于…
by reason of 由于
by reason of
由于
reason ['ri:zn] vi评理,劝说 n.理由
reason ['ri:zn] 原因
有理,有利,有节 on just grounds, to one's advantage and with restraint； with good reason, with advantage and with restraint
以理服人 persuade through reasoning
by reason of 由于
For my part, I agree with the latter opinion for the following reasons:
我同意后者，有如下理由：
As for me, I'm in favor of the opinion that education is not complete with graduation, for the following reasons:
就我而言，我同意教育不应该随着毕业而结束的观点，有以下原因：
As for me, I'm firmly convinced that the number of foreign tourists should be limited, for the following reasons:
就我而言，我坚定地认为国外旅游者的数量应得到限制，理由如下：
There are several reasons for this problem. One of the main reasons is that the number of vehicles is increasing much more rapidly than building of roads. Another primary reason is that there seem to be too many private cars and not enough public buses.
关于这个问题，有很多原因。一个主要原因是车辆增加的数量远快于道路的建设。另一个主要原因是私家车过多而公交车不够。
The reason why we have to grow trees is that they can supply fresh air for us.
我们必须种树的原因是它们能供应我们新鲜的空气。
Summer is sultry. That's the reason why I don't like it.
夏天很闷热，这就是我不喜欢它的原因。
There are two reasons for the improvement in people's living conditions. In the first place, we have been carrying out the reform and opening-up policy. Secondly, there has been a rapid expansion of our national economy. Furthermore, the birth rate has been put under control.
人民生活状况的改善原因有两点。首先，我们一直在贯彻执行改革开放政策。其次，国民经济正在迅速发展，而且出生率已经得到控制。
It is generally believed that the chief reason for the increase in population in developed countries is not so much the rise in birth rates as the decline in death rates as a result of the improvement in medical care.
普遍认为，在发达国家人口增长的主要原因与其说是出生率的上升，还不如说是由于医疗保健的改善使死亡率下降了。
There are three means of believing, by inspiration, by reason, and by custom.
信仰有三种：神灵感应、理性思维，以及从俗。
The reason why we are so pleased to find out other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
我们所以如此乐于发现别人的秘密，是由于它能分散大家对我们自身秘密的注意。
The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.
伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟人。
The relation of genius to talent is the same as that of instinct to reason.
天赋与才能的关系一如本能与理智的关系。
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
你有没有过这种感觉，即我们举行选举的唯一理由就是弄清民意测验是否准确？
a persuasive reason
有说服力的理由
There is no reason why love shouldn't cross the age barrier.
认为爱情不可以跨越年龄障碍的说法是没有道理的。
examine a tissue sample under a microscope 在显微镜下研究组织细胞的样品
examine the structure of a novel 分析一部小说的结构
examine one's own reasons 剖析自己的动机
For security reasons the passengers have to be searched.
为了保证安全，旅客得接受检查。
Anyway, Sandy has her own reason to like rock music.
不管怎么说，桑迪喜欢摇滚音乐有她的理由。
Anyway, Sandy has her own reason for liking rock music.
不管怎么说，桑迪喜欢摇滚音乐有她的理由。
In embarrassment he couldn't remember the reasons for visiting Nancy.
尴尬之中，他记不起来拜访南希的理由了。
There is every reason to believe that he is telling the truth.
有充分理由相信他说的是真话。
an elegant piece of reasoning
一段简要明确的论证
A prime reason for our economic decline is lack of people willing to put money into new businesses.
我们经济衰退的一个主要原因是愿意投资于新企业的人太少。
The reason for his failure in the exam is that he didn't apply himself to his study.
他考试不及格的原因是学习不用功。
He is living in exile on the small island for some political reason.
他因为某种政治原因在小岛上过着流亡生活。
Their reasoning won't stand up to detailed criticism.
他们的推论经不起仔细推敲。
Provided that they are fit I see no reason why they shouldn’t go on playing for another four or five years.
只要他们合适，我看不出为何他们不应再打四五年。
Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of ageing could he slowed down.
Taiju Matsuzawa 教授想找出为什么日本北部的健康农民在相对年轻的年龄就显得开始失去思考与推理的能力的原因以及怎样才能延缓老化过程。
For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it , let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.
除了一些洲际旅行者和以大海为生的人，对于大多数人来说，大海是遥远的，没有什么必要提出太多问题，更别说思考大海海底的东西了。
Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies.
人民活动家一直认为黑人和拉丁美人难以在生意上立足的原因是因为他们难以取得大公司的大宗定单和分包合同。
With respect to their reasons for immigrating, Grassy does not deny their frequently noted fact that some of the immigrants of the 1630’s, most notably the organizers and clergy, advanced religious explanations for departure, but he finds that such explanations usually assumed primacy only in retrospect.
对于他们移民原因的细节，Grassy并不否认他们经常提出的事实－17世纪30年代的一些移民主要由组织家和牧师组成，提出了要离开的宗教解释，但他发现只是以回顾的方式推定的基本情况。
They do not know those parts of the doctrine which explain and justify the remainder ; the considerations which show that a fact which seemingly conflicts with another is reconcilable with it, or that, of two apparently strong reasons, one and not the other ought to be preferred.
他们不知道那解释和点明其余部分合理的学说，那些表明似乎与其它相冲突的因素是可以协调一致的，或者应该提出两个明显有力的原因中的一个而不是另一个。
Thus in addition to the chances of going away from the right path outlined above, the scientific investigator shares with the ordinary citizen the possibilities of falling into errors of reasoning in the ways we have just indicated, and many others as well.
因此除了以上列出的走弯路的可能性外，科学研究者们和普通人一样，也有在我们刚才提到的思维方式上犯错误的可能性，以及在一些其他的方面。
For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
因为所有这些原因，要进行有效读报的话，既要得到你需要的信息又不浪费时间，需要选择和应用良好的阅读技能和自我了解。
What was the real reason for your absence?
你缺席的真正原因是什么？
We have reason to believe that he was murdered.
我们有理由相信他是被谋杀的。
She can reason very clearly.
她能很清晰地思考。
The reasons why he did it are obscure.
他做那事的理由还不清楚。
我没有理由让人嫉妒。
I have no reason to be envied. *envy“羡慕他人或物”，“嫉妒”。
There is no reason to be jealous of me.
There is no reason to envy me.
这事做起来没有太大价值。
There isn't much merit in doing so.
There is no reason to do so.
I don't see the point (of doing that).
你发什么牢骚?
There's no reason for complaints. *complaint “不满”、“抱怨”、“诉苦”。
There is no reason to complain.
There is nothing to complain about.
1) Would you like some more? (您还想再要点儿吗?)
Why not? (好的。)
No reason not to.
Sure.
Thanks.
No problem.
你的意见有道理。
Your opinion is reasonable. *reasonable “有道理的”、“合乎情理的”、“合理的”。
I don't think it's a good idea. (我觉得那不是个好主意。)
Your opinion is reasonable. (你的意见有道理。)
Your opinion stands to reason.
That's a reasonable opinion.
Your opinion is unreasonable. (你的意见没道理。)
这不，你看……
You see... *非常随便的说法。
Why? (为什么?)
You see, we need to stay competitive. (你看，我们必须在竞争中坚持住。)
The reason is...
告诉我为什么。
Tell me why.
What's the reason? (理由是什么?)
你干吗要去做这种事呢?
What are you doing this for? *当不明白对方为什么要做毫无理由的事情的时候使用。
Why are you doing this?
What's the reason you're doing this?
Why are you doing something like this? (你干吗要干这样的事呢?)
为什么不行?
Why not? *在被对方否定时，反驳对方“为什么不行?”，还含有“当然可以”、“同意”的意思。
You can't wear the red pants. (你不能穿那条红裤子。)
Why not? They're my favorite. (为什么不能?这是我最喜欢的裤子。)
Why can't I?
Is there a reason? (有理由吗?)
没有理由不让做吧。
No reason not to.
Why do you want to do that? (你为什么想做那件事?)
No reason not to. (没有理由不让做吧。)
Why not?
What's wrong with it?
Why shouldn't I?
我告诉你为什么……
I'll tell you why...
This is the reason why...
告诉我为什么?
Tell me why.
What's the reason? (理由是什么呢?)
Why do you think that? (你为什么那么想?)
当然。
Why not? *表示“没有理由不同意”的语感，意为“当然”、“很愿意”。
Should we have more drinks? (我们再喝点儿吗?)
Why not? (当然。)
No reason not to.
不行!
Not on your life! *表示强烈的拒绝。
Would you lie for me? (你能帮我撒个谎吗?)
Not on your life! (不行!)
Certainly not.
Not for any reason!
No way!
Not a chance!
Fat chance!
Not a chance in the world! *表示更为强烈的拒绝。
You can see for yourselves the damaged condition and the reason why they are unassailable.
你们可以亲眼看到完好无损情况以及货物无法销售的原因。
We should make it clear whether the damage was caused in transit or during the unloading process, or by other reasons.
我们要弄清楚货物是否在运输途中受损，还是在卸货过程中受损，或者别的原因。
Well, er, in your case, I see no reason why not. What's your proposition?
这个，呃，我看可以。您想透支多少？
May I ask the reason for your remittance?
可以请问汇款的原因吗？
You cannot break the contract without any good reason.
如果没有什么正当理由，你们不应撕毁合同。
We have every reason to cancel the contract because you've failed to fulfil your part of it.
我们完全有理由取消合同，因为你们没有完成应遵守的合同内容，履行合同。
People who work in offices are frequently referred to as "white-collar workers" for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to walk.
坐办公室的人之所以常常被称作"白领工人"，就是因为他们通常是穿着硬领白衬衫，系着领带去上班。
The reasons of the poor weight not.
人微言轻。
A man without reason is a beast in season.
人无理智就像是一头发情的野兽。
Custom without reason is but ancient error.
习俗没有道理，古代谬误而已。
Love is without reason.
爱情是没理智的。
Reason binds the man.
理智约束著人。
Reason deceives us often, conscience never.
理性常骗人，良心永不欺。
Reason governs the wise man a cudgels the fool.
理智指导聪明人，而且打击愚蠢汉。
Reason is the guide and light of life.
理智是人生的响导和光辉。
Reason rules all things.
情理管万事。
Strong reasons make strong actions.
理由充足，行动就坚决。
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
聪明人循理智办事，平常人照经验办事，蠢人按需要办事，畜生凭本能办事。
When one is about to act, one must reason first.
凡事要先思而后行。
Where passion is high there reason is low.
感情高涨处，理智就低落。
Whom God would ruin, he first deprives of reason.
伤天害理，天诛地灭。
The loss for this reason should be charged by the side breaking the contract.
造成的损失必须由毁约方承担。
What's your reason for the refusal of payment?
你们拒付的理由是什么？
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool ;and he who dares not is a slave.
William Drummond. British engineer
不愿说理的人是顽固分子；不会说理的人是傻瓜；不敢说理的人是奴隶。
英国工程师德拉蒙德.W.
Men have lost their reason in nothig so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
Sir Thomas Brown, British Physician
人们在宗教中失去理智最多，在那里石头和破布成了殉难者。
英国医生布朗爵士.T.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare, British dramatist
强有力的理由产生强有力的行动。
英国剧作家莎士比亚W .
Prejudice is the reason of fools .
Voltaire, French Philosopher
偏见是蠢人的推论。
法国哲学家伏尔泰
reason n. 理由,原因,理智,理性,道理,前提;vt.说服,推论,辩论;vi. 推论,劝说,思考
@@@ 因为, 由于
as a result of 作为...的结果, 由于...
by reason of 由于, 因为
by virtue of 由于...; 因为...的缘故
due to 1.由于, 因为
for one's sake & for the sake of sb. 看在...的份上; 为了...的缘故
in view of 考虑到; 由于
now that 既然; 由于
on account of 因为, 由于
2.定于...
owing to 由于, 因为
thanks to 由于; 多亏, 幸亏
screw someone over欺负某人
After working in the office for ten years, Alice was fired for no apparent reason. How can they screw her over like that?
爱丽斯工作了十年之后，无缘无故被炒鱿鱼。他们怎么可以这样欺负她呢？
The reason ideas die quickly in some people's heads is that they can't stand solitary confinement.
有的人信念丧失，只因为孤独环绕。
"Of course Dad gets mad at me sometimes for no good reason. But if I ever need it, I know he would give me the shirt off his back."
“我父亲有时对我发火也不见得有什么道理。但是,只要我需要，他总是会尽一切力量帮助我的。”
give reason to 对…进行解释
- hate somebody's guts 恨之入骨
He dismissed my for no reason at all. I hate his guts.
- fly off the handle 大发雷霆
It's no use flying off the handle. You can reason with us.
- be on the outs with someone 与……失和
For some reason, the two countries have been on outs for a long time.
What's your reason for the refusal of payment?
你们拒付的理由是什么？
按理 [àn lǐ] /according to reason/in the ordinary course of events/normally/
摆事实讲道理 [bǎi shì shí jiǎng dào lǐ] /present the facts and reason things out/
不近人情 [bù jìn rén qíng] /not amenable to reason/unreasonable/
不可理喻 [bù kě lǐ yù] /be impervious to reason/won't listen to reason/
道 [dào] /direction/way/method/road/path/principle/truth/reason/skill/method/Tao (of Taoism)/a measure word/to say/to speak/to talk/
道理 [dào lǐ] /reason/argument/sense/principle/basis/justification/
故 [gù] /happening/instance/reason/cause/deceased/old/
旷工 [kuàng gōng] /(v) skip work with not valid reason/
类推 [lèi tuī] /to reason by analogy/
理 [lǐ] /reason/logic/science/inner principle or structure/
理由 [lǐ yóu] /reason/ground(s)/justification/
论点 [lùn diǎn] /argument/line of reasoning/thesis/point (of discussion)/
情理 [qíng lǐ] /reason/sense/
推理 [tuī lǐ] /reasoning/speculative/
为此 [wèi cǐ] /for this reason/with regards to this/in this respect/in order to do this/to this end/
为什么 [wèi shěn me ] /why/for what reason/
因 [yīn] /cause/reason/because/
因此 [yīn cǐ] /that is why/for that reason/therefore/for this reason/
由 [yóu] /follow/from/it is for...to/reason/cause/because of/due to/by/to/to leave it (to sb)/
缘 [yuán] /along/predestined affinity/reason/edge/
缘故 [yuán gù] /reason/cause/
原因 [yuán yīn] /cause/origin/root cause/reason/
原因很简单 [yuán yīn hěn jiǎn dān] /the reason is very simple/
原因是 [yuán yīn shì] /the reason is .../
缘由 [yuán yóu] /reason/cause/
主要原因 [zhǔ yào yuán yīn] /main reason/primary cause/
主因 [zhǔ yīn] /main reason/
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s.
然而，我们有充分的理由预期这次油价暴涨给经济带来的影响不会像20世纪70年代那么严重。
In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.
与70年代相比，现在多数国家的原油价格占汽油价格的份额要小很多。
In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.
在欧洲，税金在汽油零售价的比例高达4/5，因此，即使原油价格发生很大的波动，汽油价格所受的影响也不会像过去那么显著。
One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.
另外一个不应因油价上升而失眠的原因是，与20世纪70年代不同，这次油价上升不是发生在普遍的物价暴涨及全球需求过旺背景之下。
A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide — the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor.
今天，人们十分关注所谓的是信息差异问题——世界上信息资源丰富的地区和信息资源贫乏的地区之间的差异；
And that divide does exist today.
这个差异确实存在，
My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago.
我和我妻子20年前就曾谈及这个临近的危险。
What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide.
然而，那时还不太明显的是一些抵制信息差异的、新的积极因素。
There are reasons to be optimistic.
实际上我们是完全有理由感到乐观的。
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow.
一些技术上的因素使我们有理由期望差异会缩小。
As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access — after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are.
随着互联网的日趋商业化，上网普及对商家是有利的——毕竟，上网人数越多，潜在的客户就越多。
More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access.
越来越多的政府，惟恐自己的国家落后，纷纷推广互联网的普及。
While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline — after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late '80s — and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
在美国，这种趋势一开始是对经济衰落所做出的一种反应——出现于80年代后期缩小经济规模所引起的大量人员冗余之后——在英国，至少在我所认识的中产阶级的简化生活者中，这种趋势仍被认为与节俭政治有关联，虽然如此，然而我们有着不同的缘由去寻求使自己的生活简单化。
Ten years ago young people were hardworking and saw their jobs as their primary reason for being, but now Japan has largely fulfilled its economic needs, and young people don't know where they should go next.
10年前，日本人工作勤奋，将工作视为他们存在的主要理由，但现在日本大体上已经满足了其经济需求，年轻人却不知道他们下一步的目标在哪里。
They jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete's injury.
陪审团也认为造成该运动员受伤的是这项运动本身的危险性，而不是头盔。
An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students' career prospects and those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical educational reform.
对于计算机课堂教学，人们在观点上存在着一条无形的界限：一种是以学生的就业前景为理由，另一种是以激进的教育改革为理由。
Very few writers on the subject have explored this distinction — indeed, contradiction — which goes to the heart of what is wrong with the campaign to put computers in the classroom.
很少有人就这一区别——事实上是矛盾——进行撰文探讨，但它却是促使计算机进入课堂的活动出问题的关键。
An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is a technical education, justified for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law.
旨在使学生胜任某种工作的教育是职业教育，它存在的理由与法律所规定的普及教育之间有很大差别。
It is not simply to raise everyone's job prospects that all children are legally required to attend school into their teens.
根据法律要求，所有儿童都必须就学至十几岁，其目的并非简单地增加他们的谋职能力。
Banking on the confusion between educational and vocational reasons for brining computers into schools, computer-ed advocates often emphasize the job prospects of graduates over their educational achievement.
基于将计算机引入课堂的“教育理由”和“谋职理由”的混淆，主张计算机教育的人常常只强调毕业生的就业前景，而忽略了他们的教育成就。
Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as "The Flight from Science and Reason," held in New York City in 1995, and "Science in the Age of (Mis) information," which assembled last June near Buffalo.
科学的捍卫者们也在一些会议上表示了他们的担忧。比如，1995年在纽约举行的“远离科学和理性”会议，以及去年6月在布法罗附近召开的“信息（迷信）时代的科学”会议。
The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC — including ordinary listeners and viewers — to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
英国政府发起了这场争论，它邀请每一位对BBC有看法的人——包括普通的听众和观众——对公司好坏进行评说，甚至可以评说他们是否认为公司值得办下去。
The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC's royal charter runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organisation as it is, or to make changes.
这样做的原因是BBC所持的皇家特许证于1996年到期，政府必须决定让公司维持原状还是进行变革。
Kitcher is philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of his arguments.
金切尔是位哲学家，这也许能部分说明他的立论为何明确而有说服力。
The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.
非专业人士起码可以了解支持进化论的各种数据和观点。
The final chapter on the creationists will be extremely clear to all.
关于创世纪论者的最后一章对每个人来说都阐述得极为清楚。
On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself."
这部优秀作品的护封上引用了斯蒂芬·杰?古尔德的一句话，“本书赌注是理性”。
And so it does — and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.
的确如此——如果理性是创世纪论和进化论之争的惟一裁判，一切问题就已解决了。
So-called intelligent behaviour demands memory, remembering being a primary requirement for reasoning.
用于解决问题或是辨别出有问题存在的所谓的智力行为需要记忆，记忆能力是推理的一个基本需求。
Computers are relied on by manufacturers for similar reasons.
基于同样的原因，生产商们也依赖计算机。
{adj: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous} highly complex or intricate
"the Byzantine tax structure"
"convoluted legal language"
"convoluted reasoning"
"the plot was too involved"
"a knotty problem"
"got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott
"tortuous legal procedures"
"tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
{adj: a posteriori} involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principals or from effects to causes
"a posteriori demonstration"
<-> a priori
{adj: a priori} involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
"an a priori judgment"
<-> a posteriori
{adj: abstract} dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
"abstract reasoning"
"abstract science"
{adj: absurd} inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
"the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
{adj: acquitted, not guilty} declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless
"he stands acquitted on all charges"
"the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity"
{adj: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp} having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
"an acute observer of politics and politicians"
"incisive comments"
"icy knifelike reasoning"
"as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"
"penetrating insight"
"frequent penetrative observations"
{adj: ad hominem} appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason)
"ad hominem arguments"
{adj: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent} impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
"he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"
"Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
"an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"
{adj: amenorrheic, amenorrhoeic, amenorrheal, amenorrhoeal} related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy
{adj: analytic, analytical} using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles)
"an analytic experiment"
"an analytic approach"
"a keenly analytic man"
"analytical reasoning"
"an analytical mind"
<-> synthetic
{adj: apt, clever} mentally quick and resourceful
"an apt pupil"
"you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker
{adj: ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan} practicing great self-denial
"Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James
"a desert nomad's austere life"
"a spartan diet"
"a spartan existence"
{adj: assassinated} murdered by surprise attack for political reasons
"the 20th century has seen too many assassinated leaders"
{adj: assorted, various} of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity
"assorted sizes"
"his disguises are many and various"
"various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"
"cited various reasons for his behavior"
{adj: assumed, assumptive, taken for granted} accepted as real or true without proof
"an assumed increase in population"
"the assumed reason for his absence"
"assumptive beliefs"
"his loyalty was taken for granted"
{adj: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild} without a basis in reason or fact
"baseless gossip"
"the allegations proved groundless"
"idle fears"
"unfounded suspicions"
"unwarranted jealousy"
{adj: blind, unreasoning} not based on reason or evidence
"blind hatred"
"blind faith"
"unreasoning panic"
{adj: capricious, impulsive, whimsical} determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
"a capricious refusal"
"authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"
"the victim of whimsical persecutions"
{adj: casuistic, casuistical} of or relating to or practicing casuistry
"overly subtle casuistic reasoning"
{adj: causeless, reasonless} having no justifying cause or reason
"a senseless, causeless murder"
"a causeless war that never had an aim"
"an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"
{adj: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany} ludicrous, foolish
"gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"
"wore a goofy hat"
"a silly idea"
"some wacky plan for selling more books"
{adj: conclusive} final and deciding
"the conclusive reason"
{adj: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious} based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence
"theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"
"the supposed reason for his absence"
"suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"
"hypothetical situation"
{adj: considered, reasoned, well thought out} resulting from careful thought
"the paper was well thought out"
{adj: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable} too numerous to be counted
"incalculable riches"
"countless hours"
"an infinite number of reasons"
"innumerable difficulties"
"the multitudinous seas"
"myriad stars"
"untold thousands"
{adj: cursed, curst} deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier
"villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"
"cursed with four daughter"
"not a cursed drop"
"his cursed stupidity"
"I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
<-> blessed
{adj: deductive} relating to logical deduction
"deductive reasoning"
{adj: dianoetic, discursive} proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
{adj: economic} concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
"he wrote the book primarily for economic reasons"
"gave up the large house for economic reasons"
"in economic terms they are very privileged"
{adj: emotional} determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
"it was an emotional judgment"
<-> cerebral
{adj: equitable, just} implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all
"equitable treatment of all citizens"
"an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"
<-> inequitable
{adj: especial, exceptional, particular, special} surpassing what is common or usual or expected
"he paid especial attention to her"
"exceptional kindness"
"a matter of particular and unusual importance"
"a special occasion"
"a special reason to confide in her"
"what's so special about the year 2000?"
{adj: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious} greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
"exorbitant rent"
"extortionate prices"
"spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"
"usurious interest rate"
"unconscionable spending"
{adj: fallacious, unsound} containing or based on a fallacy
"fallacious reasoning"
"an unsound argument"
{adj: fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured} pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
"a fine-looking woman"
"a good-looking man"
"better-looking than her sister"
"very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray
"our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
{adj: frenzied, manic} affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
"a frenzied attack"
"a frenzied mob"
"the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter
"outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"
{adj: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic, humanitarian} marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare
"a humane physician"
"released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"
"respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"
{adj: humanist, humanistic} of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion
"the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas
{adj: illative, inferential} resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
"an illative conclusion"
"inferential reasoning"
{adj: impressionistic} of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning
"a surprisingly impressionistic review bearing marks of hasty composition"
"she had impressionistic memories of her childhood"
{adj: incongruous} lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
"a plan incongruous with reason"
"incongruous behavior"
"a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
<-> congruous
{adj: inconsiderate, unconsidered} without proper consideration or reflection
"slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"
"unconsidered words"
"prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions"
{adj: inconstant} likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable
"inconstant affections"
"an inconstant lover"
"swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare
<-> constant
{adj: inductive} of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion
"inductive reasoning"
<-> deductive
{adj: inexplicable, incomprehensible} incapable of being explained or accounted for
"inexplicable errors"
"left the house at three in the morning for inexplicable reasons"
<-> explicable
{adj: inferential} of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
{adj: intelligent, reasoning, thinking} endowed with the capacity to reason
{adj: intelligent} having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
"is there intelligent life in the universe?"
"an intelligent question"
<-> unintelligent
{adj: intuitive, nonrational, visceral} obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
{adj: invalid} having no cogency or legal force
"invalid reasoning"
"an invalid driver's license"
<-> valid
{adj: irrational} not consistent with or using reason
"irrational fears"
"irrational animals"
<-> rational
{adj: isolated, quarantined} under forced isolation especially for health reasons
"a quarantined animal"
"isolated patients"
{adj: logical} capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
"a logical mind"
<-> illogical
{adj: manifold, multiplex} many and varied; having many features or forms
"manifold reasons"
"our manifold failings"
"manifold intelligence"
"the multiplex opportunities in high technology"
{adj: metaphysical} highly abstract and overly theoretical
"metaphysical reasoning"
{adj: mindless, reasonless, senseless} not marked by the use of reason
"mindless violence"
"reasonless hostility"
"a senseless act"
{adj: nebulous, unfixed} lacking definition or definite content
"nebulous reasons"
"unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
{adj: nonracial} not racial; having nothing to do with race or races
"his remarks were intended to be completely nonracial"
"a nonracial reason for the peremptory challenge of the juror"
<-> racial
{adj: nonrational} not based on reason
"there is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture"
{adj: prestigious} exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige
"a prestigious professor at a prestigious university"
{adj: proud} feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
"proud parents"
"proud of his accomplishments"
"a proud moment"
"proud to serve his country"
"a proud name"
"proud princes"
<-> humble
{adj: prudential} arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters
"he abstained partly for prudential reasons"
{adj: rational} consistent with or based on or using reason
"rational behavior"
"a process of rational inference"
"rational thought"
<-> irrational
{adj: real} no less than what is stated; worthy of the name
"the real reason"
"real war"
"a real friend"
"a real woman"
"meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"
"it's time he had a real job"
"it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money"
<-> unreal
{adj: reasonable, sensible} showing reason or sound judgment
"a sensible choice"
"a sensible person"
<-> unreasonable
{adj: reasoned, sound, well-grounded} logically valid
"a sound argument"
{adj: reasonless} not endowed with the capacity to reason
"a reasonless brute"
{adj: receptive} open to arguments, ideas, or change
"receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
{adj: straight} following a correct or logical method
"straight reasoning"
{adj: syllogistic} of or relating to or consisting of syllogism
"syllogistic reasoning"
{adj: tenable, well-founded} based on sound reasoning or evidence
"well-founded suspicions"
{adj: tortuous} not straightforward
"his tortuous reasoning"
{adj: unclear} not clear to the mind
"the law itself was unclear on that point"
"the reason for their actions is unclear to this day"
<-> clear
{adj: unexplained} having the reason or cause not made clear
"an unexplained error"
{adj: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken} not made explicit
"the unexpressed terms of the agreement"
"things left unsaid"
"some kind of unspoken agreement"
"his action is clear but his reason remains unstated"
{adj: unmedicinal, unmedicative, unmedical, nonmedicinal} not having a medicinal effect or not medically prescribed
"he took mind-altering drugs for nonmedicinal reasons"
{adj: venerable} impressive by reason of age
"a venerable sage with white hair and beard"
{adv: a fortiori} with greater reason; for a still stronger, more certain reason
"if you are wrong then, a fortiori, so am I"
{adv: abstrusely} in a manner difficult to understand
"the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
{adv: by rights, properly} with reason or justice
{adv: consequently, accordingly} (sentence connectors) because of the reason given
"consequently, he didn't do it"
"continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor"
{adv: consequently, therefore} as a consequence
"he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held"
{adv: in one's own right, in his own right, in her own right, in its own right} by reason of one's own ability or ownership etc.
"she's a rich woman in her own right rather than by inheritance"
"an excellent novel in its own right"
{adv: irrationally, without reasoning} in an irrational manner
"they acted irrationally"
<-> rationally
{adv: justifiably, with reason} with good reason
"he is justifiably bitter"
<-> unjustifiably
{adv: lightly} without good reason
"one cannot say such things lightly"
{adv: logically} according to logical reasoning
"logically, you should now do the same to him"
{adv: reasonably, moderately, within reason, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably} to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
"the shoes are priced reasonably"
"he is fairly clever with computers"
"they lived comfortably within reason"
<-> immoderately, unreasonably
{adv: somehow, for some reason} for some unspecified reason
"It doesn't seem fair somehow"
"he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it"
"for some reason they didn't seem to match"
{adv: therefore, hence, thence, thus} (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
"therefore X must be true"
"the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"
"we were young and thence optimistic"
"it is late and thus we must go"
"the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
{adv: unreasonably, immoderately} to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation
"his prices are unreasonably high"
<-> moderately, reasonably
{n: Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas, St. Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas Aquinas} (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; presented philosophical proofs of the existence of God (1225-1274)
{n: Astana, Akmola, capital of Kazakhstan} remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998
{n: Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans} English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
{n: Enlightenment, Age of Reason} a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
{n: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel} German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831)
{n: Herder, Johann Gottfried von Herder} German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)
{n: Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist} German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811)
{n: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness} a message whose content is at variance with reason
{n: adducer} a discussant who offers an example or a reason or a proof
{n: air marshal, sky marshal} a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight
{n: analogist} someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy
{n: anchorite, hermit} one retired from society for religious reasons
{n: argument, argumentation, debate} a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
"the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
{n: argumentation, logical argument, line of reasoning, line} the methodical process of logical reasoning
"I can't follow your line of reasoning"
{n: burst, fit} a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
"a burst of applause"
"a fit of housecleaning"
{n: case} a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
"he stated his case clearly"
{n: casuist, sophist} someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
{n: cause, reason, grounds} a justification for something existing or happening
"he had no cause to complain"
"they had good reason to rejoice"
{n: cautery, cauterant} an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
{n: civil right} right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
{n: cognition, knowledge, noesis} the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
{n: conclusion, ratiocination} the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
{n: concurring opinion} an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoning
{n: conjecture} reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
{n: contraindication} (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment
<-> indication
{n: critic} anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something
{n: culture} the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
"the developing drug culture"
"the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture"
{n: deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis} reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
{n: deism, free thought} the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation
{n: derivation} a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
{n: dialectic} any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
{n: dictate} a guiding principle
"the dictates of reason"
{n: drug of abuse, street drug} a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction
{n: duty} work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
"the duties of the job"
{n: dyslogia} impaired ability to express ideas verbally; usually resulting from difficulties of reasoning (as in feeblemindedness or certain psychoses)
{n: elimination, reasoning by elimination} analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
{n: eudemonism, endaemonism} an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason
{n: fallaciousness} result of a fallacy or error in reasoning
{n: fallacy, false belief} a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
{n: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness} the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
"I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory"
{n: generalization, generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning} reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
{n: guesstimate, guestimate} an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing
{n: habitual abortion} repeated spontaneous abortion (often for no known reason)
{n: humanism, secular humanism} the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural
{n: illogicality, illogicalness, illogic, inconsequence} invalid or incorrect reasoning
<-> logicality, logicalness
{n: indication} (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
"the presence of bacterial infection was an indication for the use of antibiotics"
<-> contraindication
{n: inference, illation} the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
{n: intellectualization, intellectualisation} (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
{n: irrational motive} a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
{n: justification} the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning
"the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller
{n: kingdom, land, realm} a domain in which something is dominant
"the untroubled kingdom of reason"
"a land of make-believe"
"the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
{n: koan} a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning
{n: logic programming} creating a program that enables the computer to reason logically
{n: logic, logical system, system of logic} a system of reasoning
{n: logicality, logicalness} correct and valid reasoning
<-> illogicality, illogicalness
{n: logic} reasoned and reasonable judgment
"it made a certain kind of logic"
{n: logic} the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
"economic logic requires it"
"by the logic of war"
{n: metamathematics} the logical analysis of mathematical reasoning
{n: military position, position} a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
{n: mind, head, brain, psyche, nous} that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
"his mind wandered"
"I couldn't get his words out of my head"
{n: misology} hatred of reasoning
{n: motivation, motive, need} the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
"we did not understand his motivation"
"he acted with the best of motives"
{n: natural theology} a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
{n: no-goal} a nonexistent goal
"he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal"
{n: nonperson, unperson} a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
"the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration"
"George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons"
{n: nudist, naturist} a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion
{n: occasion} reason
"there was no occasion for complaint"
{n: opinion, legal opinion, judgment, judgement} the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
"opinions are usually written by a single judge"
{n: opinion, ruling} the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)
{n: particular, specific} a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
"he always reasons from the particular to the general"
<-> general
{n: past} a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
"reporters dug into the candidate's past"
{n: phenomenon} any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
{n: philosopher} a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
{n: policy maker} someone who sets the plan pursued by a government or business etc.
"policy makers often make the right decision for the wrong reason"
{n: postulate, posit} (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
{n: prediction, anticipation, prevision} the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
{n: pretext, stalking-horse} something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
{n: principle, rule} a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
"their principles of composition characterized all their works"
{n: quasi contract} a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent
{n: raison d'etre} reason for being
{n: ratiocination} logical and methodical reasoning
{n: rational motive} a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
{n: rationale, principle} (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
"the rationale for capital punishment"
"the principles of internal-combustion engines"
{n: rationalism, freethinking} the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
{n: rationalism} (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
{n: rationalism} the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
{n: rationality, reason, reasonableness} the state of having good sense and sound judgment
"his rationality may have been impaired"
"he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"
{n: rationalization, rationalisation} the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
{n: reason, ground} a rational motive for a belief or action
"the reason that war was declared"
"the grounds for their declaration"
{n: reason, understanding, intellect} the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
"we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
{n: reasonableness} goodness of reason and judgment
"the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges"
{n: reasoner, ratiocinator} someone who reasons logically
{n: reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thought} thinking that is coherent and logical
{n: reason} a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
"there is reason to believe he is lying"
{n: reason} an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
"the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"
{n: recusation, recusal} (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves
{n: regress, reasoning backward} the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
{n: representation} a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting
"certain representations were made concerning police brutality"
{n: sake, interest} a reason for wanting something done
"for your sake"
"died for the sake of his country"
"in the interest of safety"
"in the common interest"
{n: seniority, senior status, higher status, higher rank} higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service
{n: sexual immorality} the evil ascribed to sexual acts that violate social conventions
"sexual immorality is the major reason for last year's record number of abortions"
{n: sophism, sophistry, sophistication} a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
{n: sophistication} falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies
"he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
{n: state} a state of depression or agitation
"he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
{n: syllogism} deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
{n: syllogist, syllogizer, syllogiser} logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning
{n: therapeutic abortion} a legally induced abortion for medical reasons (as when the mother's life is threatened)
{n: torture, torturing} the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
"it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
{n: truckling} the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons)
{n: unwelcome person, persona non grata} a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome
{n: unwieldiness} the condition of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity
"avoiding the unwieldiness of formal legal processes"
"the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations"
{v: account for} be the reason or explanation for
"The recession accounts for the slow retail business"
{v: account for} give reasons for
"Can you account for all these absences?"
{v: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise} defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
"rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"
"he rationalized his lack of success"
{v: argue, reason} present reasons and arguments
{v: black out} suppress by censorship as for political reasons
"parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
{v: blank out} cut out, as for political reasons
"several line in the report were blanked out"
{v: classify} declare unavailable, as for security reasons
"Classify these documents"
<-> declassify
{v: deduce, infer, deduct, derive} reason by deduction ; establish by deduction
{v: deduce, infer} conclude by reasoning ; in logic
{v: destruct} destroy (one's own missile or rocket)
"The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"
{v: diet} eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
{v: diet} follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
"He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"
{v: elicit} derive by reason
"elicit a solution"
{v: embargo} ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons
"embargoed publications"
{v: encode, code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code} convert ordinary language into code
"We should encode the message for security reasons"
<-> decode
{v: excuse, explain} serve as a reason or cause or justification of
"Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"
"Her recent divorce amy explain her reluctance to date again"
{v: expostulate} reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion
{v: fast} abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
"Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"
{v: furlough, lay off} dismiss, usually for economic reasons
"She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"
{v: ground} connect to a ground
"ground the electrical connections for safety reasons"
{v: induce} reason or establish by induction
{v: philosophize, philosophise} reason philosophically
{v: present, represent, lay out} bring forward and present to the mind
"We presented the arguments to him"
"We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"
{v: quarantine} place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons
"My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"
{v: ratiocinate} reason methodologically and logically
{v: rationalize, rationalise} think rationally ; employ logic or reason
"When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
{v: reason, reason out, conclude} decide by reasoning ; draw or come to a conclusion
"We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
{v: reason} think logically
"The children must learn to reason"
{v: reflectorize, reflectorise} provide with reflectors, such as chemicals
"the driveway was reflectorized for safety reasons"
{v: remonstrate, point out} present and urge reasons in opposition
{v: seem} appear to exist
"There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now"
{v: see} go to see for professional or business reasons
"You should see a lawyer"
"We had to see a psychiatrist"
{v: set forth, expound, exposit} state
"set forth one's reasons"
{v: speculate} talk over conjecturally, or review in an idle or casual way and with an element of doubt or without sufficient reason to reach a conclusion
"We were speculating whether the President had to resign after the scandal"
{v: syllogize, syllogise} reason by syllogisms
{v: think, cogitate, cerebrate} use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
"I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere"
{v: think} decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
"Can you think what to do next?"
{v: think} ponder ; reflect on, or reason about
"Think the matter through"
"Think how hard life in Russia must be these days"
{v: want} hunt or look for ; want for a particular reason
"Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"
"Uncle Sam wants you"
It is for such reasons that we are hopeful for the future.
由于上述这些理由，我们对未来充满希望。
For that reason, it was unthinkable for us to sit down with our enemies and talk.
为此，让我们同敌人坐下来谈是不可想像的。
The reason was, no doubt, that I was quick at learning by heart and the Sheikh always asked me to stand up and recite the Chapter of the Merciful whenever we had visitors, who would pat me on my head and cheek just as people did when they saw me with my grandfather.
毫无疑问，理由是我记性好，因而每当有人参观清真寺，祭司就让我站起来背诵《悯世篇》。那些人会拍拍我的头和面颊，就像那些见到我和爷爷在一起时的人们一样。
There was a vast number of people there,
那儿聚集着一大群人。
but though I knew them all, I found myself for some reason, watching Masood:
尽管我全认识他们，可不知为什么，我只盯着马苏德看。
aloof from the great gathering of people he stood as though it was no concern of his, despite the fact that the date palms to be harvested were his own.
他远离人群站着，好像那根本不关他的事。而事实上，这些正在收获的椰枣是他自己的。
For some unknown reason I experienced a sharp sensation of pain in my chest.
不知为什么，我的胸部一阵剧痛。
At times, they see important reasons to lie for the patient's own sake;
有时，为了病人自身考虑，医生找出重要的理由来说谎。
in their eyes, such lies differ from self-serving ones.
在他们看来，这样的谎言决无自私自利之目的。
Yet the public has every reason to be wary of professional deception, for such practices are peculiarly likely to become deeply root-ed, to spread, and to erode trust.
然而，公众却有充分的理由来提防职业性的欺骗行为，因为这样的行为特别容易变得根深蒂固，广泛传播，并腐蚀信任。
Genetic engineering on plants and animals will be allowed for economic reasons and someone is bound to try it on humans.
对植物和动物施以基因工程由于经济原因是被允许的，有人必定会试图把它用于人类。
Of course George had a reason for wanting the bank to be robbed.
当然，乔治想要这家银行被抢是有个理由的。
They are people whose fortunes and foibles strike a chord for reasons that quickly don't matter.
他们是那些其命运和弱点都会拨动人们心弦的人，而那些使人心动的理由是转瞬即逝的。
For this reason, toward the end of his life the playwright's ability to write, move freely and speak clearly had disintegrated, yet his mind remained intact.
由于这个原因，在奥尼尔的生命快走到尽头时，这位剧作家的写作才能、自由行动的能力以及清晰流利的语言表达能力逐渐被病魔吞噬了，但是，他的思维能力依然完好无损。
" Head office in Russia need know only what they want to know.
"设在俄罗斯的总部只需要知道他们想知道的事情。
When Moscow want a reason for something that's gone wrong, it's me they look to for an answer.
当莫斯科想知道某件事情出错的原因时，是我来给他们回答。
But I just give whichever answer they want to hear, basically, and work out the real answer later for the report.
但我基本上只讲他们要听的答案，以后再查明真正的原因，写出报告。
Let them have their say and listen--everyone's entitled to an opinion--then give them an honest explanation.
要让他们说出想说的话，并注意倾听－每个人都有权利表达意见－然后向他们作出诚实的解释。
Ninety-nine per cent of the time, people will accept that.
在 99％的情况下，人们都会接受这种解释。
But you'll always get that one who won't. "
但你也总会赶上那 1％不接受解释的人。 "
" And they'd say, 'Yes, but there's no reason to smile because they 've already paid their money for the ticket and they can't get a refund. ' But that's not the way to offer the best customer service. Smile. "
"而他们会说： '会说：是的，但是没有理由去微笑，因为他们已经付钱买了票，他们又不能得到退款。 '不能得到退款。但这不是向旅客提供最佳服务的方式。要微笑。 "
Yet for reasons of economy, or just plain indifference, few of these spacecraft are properly shielded.
但是，由于经济方面的原因，或者纯粹由于漠不关心，几乎没有几艘航天器得到了妥善的保护。
Maccari's 1960 investigation reported how, instead of probing the reasons for Padre Pio's apparent financial invincibility, the virulently anti-Communist Pope Pius XII freed Padre Pio from his vow of poverty and instructed him to use his power to attract pilgrims from far and wide, to generate cash.
马卡里 1960年的调查报告，没有探究帕特尔.皮奥经济上显然有隐瞒的种种原因，而是报告了那位强烈反共的教皇皮尔斯十二世如何使帕特尔免于发誓过贫困的生活，并指示他利用他动人的力量吸引各地的朝圣者，以捞取现钞。
There it was: the answer to my curiosity, the reason for the care, the reserved spot next to the star and, more than anything else, the purpose for Christmas.
就在那儿，我的好奇有了答案，明白了妈妈悉心珍藏和在这颗星旁保留位置的原由；更重要的是，我理解了过圣诞节的意义。
Still, it's hard to grow to adulthood in the U.S. without ever having taken an IQ-derived standardized test( any test that has words like " ability " or " aptitude " or " reasoning " in its name).
但是在美国，从小到大没有参加过任何从智商测试衍生而来的标准化测试（如在名称中带有 "能力 "或 "潜能 "或 "推理能力 "等字眼的考试）的成年人相当少见。
The 19th-century Frenchman appeals to his modem audience for one overwhelming reason.
一个压倒一切的原因使这位 19世纪的法国人深深吸引着现代观众：
" I'd never kick my kids out.
"我决不会把我的孩子轰出家门。
I don't believe in tough love.
我不相信严厉的爱。
Teenagers are thrust into a world that seems unloving, unjust, unfair, and they see no reason for living-that's why we see so many committing suicide. "
十几岁的娃娃被推入一个看上去无爱心的、不合理的、不公平的世界中，他们看不到生存的理由－那就是为什么我们见到那么多人自杀。 "
Fascinated by their reasoning processes, he began to suspect that the key to human knowledge might be discovered by observing how the child's mind develops.
他对他们的推理过程尤感兴趣，于是开始相信人类获取知识的钥匙也许可以通过研究儿童思维的发展而发现。
Back in Switzerland, the young scientist began watching children play, scrupulously recording their words and actions as their minds raced to find reasons for why things are the way they are.
回到瑞士后，这位年轻的科学家开始观察儿童做游戏，并将孩子们快速地动脑子，寻找事物之所以是这样而不是那样的原因时的各种话语和行为，不厌其烦地认真记录下来。
Professor Dunbar said the reason could be the allure of a good background.
敦巴教授说这可能是由于良好的出身背景所带来的吸引力。
Nine out of 10 fathers attend the birth of their child in the Western world and there are, you might have thought, few good reasons why they should not.
在西方世界，孩子出生时 10个父亲中有 9个在场，你可能会想，也没什么正当理由认为他们不应伺产于一旁。
And that made sense to me, a perfectly logical reason to dig a great hole or act like an idiot in public.
在我看来，于大庭广众之下更加卖力地挖地基或表现得像个工作狂非常合乎逻辑。
For whatever reason he was always assigned to oversee detention duty in the library.
不知何故，学校老是派他来图书馆监视那些被滞留的学生。
But Sydney is remarkable for another reason:
但悉尼歌剧院之所以引人注目有另一个原因：
The reason may be genuine environmental concern.
其实，福特和通用的姿态可能真的是出于对环境保护的关心。
Such competition may be one reason for the public relations skirmish, but another factor is the rising cost of gasoline in America.
尽管环境问题可能是双方交锋的原因之一，然而美国汽油价格上扬也是一个重要的因素。
" I am in awe, " says Cousteau.
我被震惊呆了，古斯多说，
" When you look at the big picture you say this animal should be dead today.
当你看那张大幅照片，你会说这头动物不会活过今天。
He is alive for two reasons: we gave him a chance and he has an incredible desire to live.
它之所以能生存下来，有两个原因：一是我们给了它一个机会；二是它有一种让人难以置信的强烈的求生欲望。
Because of these, we are living an extraordinary adventure. "
所以我们才得以经历这场非同寻常的冒险活动。
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