(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; 'there is reason to believe he is lying'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) a rational motive for a belief or action; 'the reason that war was declared'; 'the grounds for their declaration'.

(verb.) think logically; 'The children must learn to reason'.

(verb.) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; 'We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house'.

奧德麗整理

• Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• For what does reason discover, when it pronounces any action vicious? 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
• Sir Thomas approved of it for another reason. 簡·奧斯汀. 曼斯菲爾德莊園.
• There can be no positive objection, Sir Percival, to that reason---- Very well! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• She had some guilty reason for going to the town secretly. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• I say this here for two reasons--because I hope to avoid the critical attack of the genuine Marxian specialist, and because the observation is, I believe, relevant to our subject. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• There are reasons now known to me, reasons in which you have no part, rendering it far better for you that you should not remain here. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• That he had his reasons for this, he knew full well. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• But across that long distance these currents for many reasons grew still weaker. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Can you not clear up the last point in this mystery, and tell us the reasons for your action? 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• The more Adrian reasoned upon this scheme, the more feasible it appeared. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• Here was a problem the like of which he had never encountered, and he felt rather than reasoned that he must meet it as a man and not as an ape. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They reasoned, they appealed, they implored; on his mercy they cast themselves, into his hands they confidingly thrust their interests. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Mr. Skimpole gently reasoned with him as he made a little drawing of his head on the fly-leaf of a book. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• I forced back the contemptible tears that were no relief to ME, and that only distressed HER, and reasoned and pleaded as calmly as I could. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It's so unsportsmanlike,' reasoned Winkle. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• She mustn't stop here, Becky reasoned with herself. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It meant the apprehension of material which should ballast and check the exercise of reasoning. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• When a man is in love, said Crispin intensively, it is no use reasoning with him; and, as regards Helena, I quite approve of all you say. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• A like reasoning will account for the idea of external existence. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• The origin of kindness from beauty may be explained from the foregoing reasoning. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• The image in the mind is only that of a particular object, though the application of it in our reasoning be the same, as if it were universal. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.

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