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单词 conclusion
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conclusion
(kənklʒən )
Word forms: conclusions
1. countable noun [oft NOUN that] B1+
When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
Over the years I've come to the conclusion that she's a very great musician.
I know I'm doing the right thing but other people will draw their own conclusions.
Synonyms: decision, agreement, opinion, settlement  
2. singular noun
The conclusion of something is its ending.
At the conclusion of the programme, I asked the children if they had any questions. [+ of]
Synonyms: end, ending, close, finish  
3. singular noun
The conclusion of a treaty or a business deal is the act of arranging it or agreeing it.
...the expected conclusion of a free-trade agreement between the two countries. [+ of]
4. a foregone conclusion phrase
You can refer to something that seems certain to happen as a foregone conclusion.
It was a foregone conclusion that I would end up in the same business as him.
The championship result was almost a foregone conclusion.
5. in conclusion phrase B2
You say 'in conclusion' to indicate that what you are about to say is the last thing that you want to say.
In conclusion, walking is a cheap, safe, enjoyable and readily available form of exercise.
Synonyms: finally, lastly, in closing, to sum up  
6. to jump to a conclusion phrase
If you say that someone jumps to a conclusion, you are critical of them because they decide too quickly that something is true, when they do not know all the facts. [disapproval]
I didn't want her to jump to the conclusion that the divorce was in any way her fault. [PHRASE that]
Forgive me. I shouldn't be jumping to conclusions.
Collocations:
correct conclusion
Anyone can ask the questions and reach the correct conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
This may be a correct conclusion according to the rule book but it seems hugely unfair.
Times, Sunday Times
It was one of those strange incidents where one initially wrongly identifies the villain of the piece and then, quite quickly, reaches the opposite and correct conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
The dreamer may or may not come to the correct conclusion.
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Consensus decision-making, a form of collective intelligence, thus effectively uses information from multiple sources to generally reach the correct conclusion.
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definite conclusion
King will spend the summer pondering whether this scopey grey will tackle fences next season but yesterday he had only one definite conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
The umpires conferred and could not come to a definite conclusion that the ball had carried.
Times, Sunday Times
The track ends by fading out during the middle of a verse, offering the listener no definite conclusion.
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There was lots of goodwill and fraternal sounding speeches but beyond fine words the meeting did not bring about any definite conclusion.
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These hypotheses were made based on microscopy alone, which may be deemed misleading, hence more need to be done before making a definite conclusion.
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definitive conclusion
The movement's policy of secrecy rules out any definitive conclusion about the experience of committed members.
The Times Literary Supplement
When she ended the series without a definitive conclusion about innocence or guilt, many of her millions of followers exploded with rage on social media and in the blogosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
But we never reach a definitive conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the statement said it 'may never be possible' to reach a definitive conclusion on whether there had been manual deletion.
Times, Sunday Times
The report was unable to make a definitive conclusion as to the cause of the crash.
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different conclusion
Unless the defendant's argument based on international law dictated a different conclusion, the definition was as wide as it appeared to be.
Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately, the public seems to have come to a very different conclusion.
The Sun
Which, of course, would lead pundits and trend-spotters to come to an entirely different conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
The club arrived at a different conclusion after interviewing witnesses, reviewing video evidence and taking advice from two lip-reading experts.
Times, Sunday Times
However, a long-term perspective can prompt a very different conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
dramatic conclusion
The series comes to a dramatic conclusion with tonight's double bill.
The Sun
How did you get from the break-up of a relationship to such a dramatic conclusion?
Times, Sunday Times
It seems ridiculous to draw such a dramatic conclusion from one emphatic victory over the old enemy.
The Sun
Until its dramatic conclusion, it was a typical derby, short on chances, high on commitment, but far too fast and furious to be any good.
Times, Sunday Times
Although he recalls the moment vividly, he has yet to watch a replay of the dramatic conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
draw a conclusion
Another review, on the homoeopathic remedy oscillococcinum, said it was promising but that there was not sufficient data to draw a conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
I could draw the conclusion that the prospects for the housing market don't look entirely unblemished.
Times, Sunday Times
She starts a memoir and, for a moment, seems ready to draw a conclusion, make her peace, gently melt away.
Times, Sunday Times
Furthermore, the diagnosis must be formulated in such a way that an independent observer can logically draw a conclusion based on the case history and findings.
Times, Sunday Times
It would be easy to draw the conclusion that faces are windows to the souls of strangers - easy, but very wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
erroneous conclusions
But we must be able to spot whether the same individuals are reaching erroneous conclusions over and over again.
Times, Sunday Times
And where some social workers are jumping to wholly erroneous conclusions which tear families apart.
Times, Sunday Times
Logical minds working from false premises, unfailingly arrive at erroneous conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
What sort of orgiastic, erroneous conclusions will they draw?
Globe and Mail
His criticism was that they arrived at theologically erroneous conclusions.
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escape a conclusion
I cannot escape the conclusion that if my skill deserves a piece of paper, why shouldn't the others?
Times, Sunday Times
But still, it's hard not to escape the conclusion that many of our governments, particularly the last one, held themselves to far lower standards abroad than at home.
Times, Sunday Times
And it's hard to escape the conclusion that the rest of the car exists only as a support act to that engine.
Times, Sunday Times
Every day it becomes harder to escape the conclusion that teachers are a whining, pampered and deluded subsection of our society, mistakenly convinced that they are marvellous yet put-upon.
Times, Sunday Times
There was no realistic way of escaping the conclusion, severe perhaps, that the motor home fell to be regarded as a car.
Times, Sunday Times
firm conclusion
The title makes a virtue of the film, like the issue it explores, having no firm conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
A cargo fire was indicated by the conversations of the pilots but the absence of the data recorder prevented a firm conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
At the end he leaves readers with no firm conclusion, calling the story 'a genuine historical mystery'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Viewed objectively, those connecting factors led to the firm conclusion that the claims of each group arose from acts or omissions in a series of related transactions.
Times, Sunday Times
Research on this question has not reached a firm conclusion.
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fitting conclusion to
What a fitting conclusion to the illustrious career of such a gracious lady.
Times, Sunday Times
It managed to pull the disparate strands together and brought a fitting conclusion to the tale of so many complex characters.
Times, Sunday Times
It's smart stuff, great writing and a fitting conclusion to a superlative historical portrait.
Times, Sunday Times
Ten of these canvases form a fitting conclusion to the exhibition.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was a fitting conclusion to my last gasp of singleton life and final voyage for almost a decade.
Times, Sunday Times
hasty conclusions
Your emotions and thoughts go much deeper than usual and this can lead to hasty conclusions about people or places.
The Sun
But it would be wrong to start jumping to hasty conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the slow pace actually serves your purpose, as it prevents you drawing hasty conclusions or acting swiftly based on incomplete information.
Times, Sunday Times
In order to focus on the story of infidelity, many other potential sources of conflict are brought to hasty conclusions.
The Times Literary Supplement
So watch, look and listen, but draw no hasty conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
incorrect conclusions
It's not that you've drawn incorrect conclusions, rather the actual circumstances have changed suddenly.
Times, Sunday Times
A casual viewer dipping in and out over a period of days, or the deliberate exclusion of sensitive evidence, can only lead to an incomplete understanding and thus incorrect conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
This prevents those who have a talent for drawing hasty but incorrect conclusions doing their worst.
Times, Sunday Times
By studying only this isolated issue we are likely to end up with incorrect conclusions.
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Omission of testing for different sizes has often led to incorrect conclusions.
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inescapable conclusion
Bias, conscious or otherwise, was their inescapable conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
The inescapable conclusion was the longer it went on the worse it got.
The Sun
And the inescapable conclusion they are made to look better by the world-class overseas performers around them.
The Sun
There's an inescapable conclusion here.
Times, Sunday Times
But they added that it was the inescapable conclusion of the legal advice.
Times, Sunday Times
inevitable conclusion
The game was meandering towards its inevitable conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
Will four million or more of us need to be unemployed and our economy destroyed for a generation before they reach the same inevitable conclusion?
The Sun
The verdict had long seemed the inevitable conclusion to the drawn-out case.
Chicago Sun-Times
And what he's experiencing now isn't 'a rift', it's the inevitable conclusion of sustained absence.
The Sun
We then get a rather offbeat road trip which rollercoasters to an inevitable conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
justify the conclusion
But critics say that such tests can be used to justify any conclusion which the judge might arbitrarily decide upon.
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His issuance of detailed instructions in military matters, coupled with his failure to understand either the geography of the colonies or the determination of the colonists, may justify this conclusion.
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Lab employees began to work backwards, from a conclusion preordained by the prosecutors they served, and sought to justify that conclusion rather than using more scientific research paradigms.
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Unlike them, however, she justifies her conclusions by appealing to the deep, almost spiritual relationship that people can have with animals, which she calls 'affective interconnectedness'.
The Times Literary Supplement
He has neither challenged any accusation nor bothered to justify his conclusions.
Outlook India
logical conclusion
It takes to its extreme logical conclusion the pervasive notion that if you are innocent, a good citizen, you have nothing to hide.
Times, Sunday Times
But it merely takes to its logical conclusion an attitude that we often encounter in the street.
Times, Sunday Times
Be responsive to change across the board and be prepared to follow things through to their logical conclusion.
The Sun
Taken to a logical conclusion and applied more widely it could, say, lead to fast-food retailers being barred from certain areas.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet once committed, he never wavered, driving deals through to what by then he was certain was their logical conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
meaningful conclusions
It may well turn out that he cannot reach any meaningful conclusions for a good deal longer than the one year of his remit.
Times, Sunday Times
There are pitfalls in drawing any meaningful conclusions from such studies.
Times, Sunday Times
His attempts to draw meaningful conclusions about the way the world operates are comically pointless.
Times, Sunday Times
Other than to say that there are no obvious trends, few meaningful conclusions can be drawn.
Times, Sunday Times
Sample sizes may be too small to draw meaningful conclusions, and samples may be biased.
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natural conclusion
At this point the show could have come to a natural conclusion.
The Times Literary Supplement (2008)
Rain on the first day raised the question of how the match could possibly reach a natural conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Then the conversation came to a natural conclusion and I went back inside.
Times,Sunday Times (2020)
obvious conclusion
This leads to an obvious conclusion: conventional means of supply and distribution are not enough.
Times, Sunday Times
Nobody, he points out, seems ready to face the obvious conclusion: the goals of these projects were unattainable from the outset.
Times, Sunday Times
After an extensive examination of your records, it has reached the rather obvious conclusion that someone typed a wrong digit.
Times, Sunday Times
Such talent in the arts leads us to one obvious conclusion ...
The Sun
The result was not disastrous, but nor can the dramatic nature of the ending mask an obvious conclusion — victory was required.
Times, Sunday Times
opposite conclusion
Now he turns his attention to another facet of the same syndrome, but comes near to drawing an opposite conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
A few courts have reached the opposite conclusion.
Christianity Today
Another came to the opposite conclusion, finding that the raised risk was independent of tobacco consumption, and applied even to people who have never smoked.
Times, Sunday Times
Hence, the opposite conclusion could be drawn about my favourite sauce.
Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, some courts have reached the opposite conclusion.
Christianity Today
overall conclusion
Far from it, the overall conclusion being that, at the price paid, he should have been less uncertain, more robust.
Times, Sunday Times
He agrees with the overall conclusion that there will be few world records in the future.
Times, Sunday Times
It discusses the purpose of the assay, and summarizes the study design and results and provides an overall conclusion for each assay.
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The overall conclusions are the same in the final report as in the provisional report.
Times, Sunday Times
Still, his overall conclusions are surely right.
Times, Sunday Times
premature conclusions
It called for a thorough investigation and cautioned against 'premature conclusions'.
Times, Sunday Times
Seeking to satiate the insatiable online audience with instant news can result in inaccuracies and premature conclusions.
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However, she was reprimanded for publishing premature conclusions related to data she had not collected or verified herself and participating in research that did not conform to scientific standards.
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rational conclusion
Without trying again and again to bring this thing to a much more satisfactory and sensible, more rational conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
No matter how much you analyse circumstances and the thinking of others, it's unlikely you'll reach a rational conclusion this week.
Times, Sunday Times
Financial markets have assessed the economic outlook, and they have drawn a rational conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
They have been allowed to weigh up the financial costs against the various waiting times and quality scores, and have come to their own rounded, rational conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
It was claimed by staff that a hypersonic jet was the only rational conclusion for the readings.
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reach a conclusion
We are still trying to reach a conclusion more than a month later.
Times, Sunday Times
To reach that conclusion would be the gravest of errors.
Times, Sunday Times
In this case no reasonable commissioners could reach the conclusion that they had reached.
Times, Sunday Times
People with different opinions trying to reach a conclusion based on something approaching rational deliberation.
Times, Sunday Times
And no justification for blowing millions on a judicial inquiry virtually certain to reach that conclusion.
The Sun
reasonable conclusion
In one respect that will be an absolutely reasonable conclusion.
Times,Sunday Times
It means the person saw the situation through to a reasonable conclusion, and he understands the principles involved, not just the technology.
Christianity Today
The ombudsman will look at whether the flood risk was a 'reasonable conclusion' given the property's location.
Times, Sunday Times
So let me augment data with anecdotes from estate agents, builders and the trade press in the hope of reaching a reasonable conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
It's the only reasonable conclusion after their behaviour this weekend.
The Sun
satisfactory conclusion
However, seven years of negotiations with one landowner are still to reach a satisfactory conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
The group said yesterday that the initiatives had 'failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion in the time available'.
Times, Sunday Times
Apocryphally known as the 'deathbed chorale', it's an apt and satisfactory conclusion to the composer's unfinished music.
Times, Sunday Times
I sincerely hope this brings about a satisfactory conclusion to your very unfortunate experience regarding this matter.
ST
Closure, perhaps, but not a satisfactory conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
shocking conclusion
The epic mini-series bids farewell with a shocking conclusion.
The Sun
After 90 minutes of build-up and just as it seems to be heading for a shocking conclusion, it abruptly ends.
The Sun
Get comfy on the edge of your seat because this fab series comes to a shocking conclusion ...
The Sun
Listeners to the podcast, which was downloaded ten million times in its first six weeks, will know that the story has a shocking conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
Tonight sees the shocking conclusion.
The Sun
similar conclusion
A similar randomised study done years ago, but with smaller numbers, came to a similar conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
There have been two meta-reviews of studies of surgical-mask use in the past ten years, and both arrived at a similar conclusion.
Times,Sunday Times
The other three, he said, were severely injured but the evidence was not clear enough to support a similar conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
A number of studies have reached a similar conclusion.
Times,Sunday Times
Are you heading for a similar conclusion?
Christianity Today
startling conclusion
This film leads to a startling conclusion that wipes out the story's paradoxes so neatly it's as if it never happened.
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After 20 years' work analysing almost 30,000 predictions by hundreds of experts in television, radio and newspapers, he came to two startling conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
Intimate relationships will take up most of your time today, and, although you won't reach any startling conclusions, you are keen to make some minor changes.
The Sun
successful conclusion
She meant she was looking forward to a successful conclusion to her proposition.
Times, Sunday Times
He said each development cost on average just over 300,000 to reach a successful conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
They have also sought a successful conclusion to a strategic review that was begun last year.
Times, Sunday Times
Realising that, and without compromising his democratic ideals, he also calmed the superpower stand-off and brought it to a successful conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
Better still, individuals will be more inclined to drive change forward and manage it to a successful conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
support a conclusion
A series of studies failed to support this conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
I support his conclusion that solar panels are best placed in the urban landscape, mounted on buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
Their experiences, which will be related anonymously, will be used, in part, to support the conclusion of the institute's report.
Times, Sunday Times
In an appendix, he offers a series of charts and statistical equations that supposedly support this conclusion although, to my mind, the equations are, at best, of dubious quality.
Times, Sunday Times
Recent reports about the recovery in bank earnings and bonus pool allocations, an array of rebounding leading economic indicators, and the buoyancy of equity markets all support that conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
surprising conclusion
I've thought about it and come to a surprising conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
It set up a very entertaining climax but it still looked likely that a share of honours would now be the surprising conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
In separating out these categories, the researchers came to the surprising conclusion that while insomnia was unpleasant and probably harmful to health, it did not affect lifespan.
Times, Sunday Times
The book then moves to a surprising conclusion.
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In the process, you clarify your own perspective, sometimes drawing surprising conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
sweeping conclusions
The unpublished questionnaire, she said, provided evidence that these doubts should have been a significant corrective to any sweeping conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
Even after three defeats in a week, it would be kneejerk in the extreme to draw any sweeping conclusions from such a small sample.
Times, Sunday Times
Historians should resist drawing sweeping conclusions from specific experiences.
Times, Sunday Times
tentative conclusions
This leads to tentative conclusions and deductions that spiral like a whirlpool down to one final assertion at the end of the sermon.
Christianity Today
We are reaching tentative conclusions.
Times, Sunday Times
No ancient sources testify directly to these events, but evidence of burning and the harbor blockage itself suggest the tentative conclusions of the excavators.
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tragic conclusion
So we are left here with a rather tragic conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a tragic conclusion to the inquiry and one we were all desperately hoping we would not have to face.
Times, Sunday Times
It's all very well to brush a manly tear and wait for whatever grotesque and - for once the word will be appropriate - tragic conclusion awaits in this terrible story.
Times, Sunday Times
His failure to convince his fellow doctors led to a tragic conclusion.
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As the true costs, financial and spiritual, of the endeavour become apparent, the story moves to its tragic conclusion.
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ultimate conclusion
They are the ultimate conclusion of the modernist blind faith in human autonomy.
Christianity Today
Let us push the envelope of his heady logic to its ultimate conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
If you took risk to its ultimate conclusion you would not place 300 passengers in a metal tube and propel them to 30,000ft.
Times, Sunday Times
Bean's ultimate conclusion was that if this activity could be measured, it would add between one-third and twothirds of a percentage point to growth.
Times, Sunday Times
It would be irresponsible of me to say the ultimate conclusion.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 结论
Japanese: 結論
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