Conduce

(n.) To lead or tend, esp. with reference to a favorable or desirable result; to contribute; -- usually followed by to or toward.

(v. t.) To conduct; to lead; to guide.

埃尔伯特编辑

• They may very possibly afford some amusement, but they do not conduce to temperance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• At this very moment he is wild to see you, and occupied only in contriving the means for doing so, and for making his pleasure conduce to yours. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I suspect it would conduce to the happiness and welfare of all if each knew his allotment, and held to it as tenaciously as the martyr to his creed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• May we not say that these desires spend, and that the others make money because they conduce to production? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Two or three things conduced to bring the baronet to a point. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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