Pre-determine
vt. 预先确定；预先决定；预先查明
🧩 词语组成解析
abbr. 炼油工程师（Petroleum Refining Engineer）
determine
[dɪ'tɝmɪn]
vt.& vi. （使）下决心，（使）做出决定;
vt. 决定，确定;判定，判决;使决定;限定;
vi. [主用于法律]了结，终止，结束;
de加强动作+termin界限+e→加强界限→下决心
🗣️ 情景例句
This sentence doesn't make any sense.
这个句子完全讲不通。
In college I majored in economics, What was you major?
大学时我主修经济，你主修什么呢？
but a medicine that had worked so well in one form of illness would surely be of equal benefit in another,
只知道一种药对一种病有好处，肯定对另一种病也会有好处。