December-decision：决定即取舍

【造词理据】源自PIE词根*dekm-（十）。December原始古罗马历法第十个月，是单纯的数字纪月。古罗马历法原来只有十个月，后来罗马皇帝增加了两个月，并将这两个月放在年初，成为一月和二月。原来的一月和二月便 成了三月和四月，后面的月份依次类推。12个月中，从1月到8月的每个月份都以神灵或皇帝的名字命名，只有9、10、11和12月依然保留原来以数字命名的做法。

D与T存在通转，至于为何表示数字“十”，就不得而知了。

【例句】Chinalco, China's biggest aluminium-maker, which had idled 10% of its capacity, said in December that it would restart it all.

中国最大的铝生产商—中国铝业公司已经闲置了10%的机容量。中铝声称，将会在12月份重新开足马力。

【同根词】cent; centenarian; centenary; centi-; centime; centurion; century; centennial; cinquecento; dean; deca-; decade; decagon; Decalogue; Decameron; decapod; decathlon; December; decennial; deci-; decile; decimal; decimate; decimation; decuple; decussate; denarius; denier (n.) "French coin;" dicker; dime; dinar; doyen; dozen; duodecimal; duodecimo; eighteen; fifteen; fourteen; hecatomb; hendeca-; hundred; icosahedron; nineteen; nonagenarian; octogenarian; Pentecost; percent; quattrocento; Septuagint; sexagenarian; seventeen; sixteen; ten; tenth; thirteen; thousand; tithe.

【造词理据】源自PIE词根*kae-id-（打击strike），K表手，引申指用手打击，这里借“打击以去除、切去”抽象指“下决心、做决定（就是"切去"不需要的部分）”。de-表离开（away）。

【例句】From July onwards, senior managers are locked in endless meetings to decide how much to pay out.

从7月份起，高层经理终日淹没在没完没了的会议中，以决定奖金的多少。

【同根词】abscise; avicide; biocide; caesarian; caesura; cement; chisel; -cide; circumcise; circumcision; concise; decide; decision; deicide; excise (v.); excision; felicide; feticide; filicide; floricide; fratricide; fungicide; gallinicide; genocide; germicide; herbicide; homicide; incise; incision; incisor; infanticide; insecticide; legicide; liberticide; libricide; matricide; parricide; patricide; pesticide; precise; precision; prolicide; scissors; senicide; spermicide; suicide; uxoricide; verbicide.

【造词理据】de-是前缀，-ion是名词后缀，详见decide。

【例句】"It was kind of a scary decision, so I thought about it for a few days, " Hodes recalls.

“这是一个令人战栗的决定，因而我考虑了好几天，”赫德回忆说。

【同根词】见decide。

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