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derive的基本意思是“起源”,强调事先就存在于另一种形式、另一人或一事物之中而承袭下来。承袭的方式多种多样,如遗传、转让、捐赠、继承、推理等。引申可表示“获得”“取得”,指主动的从某处得到某物,为正式用语。
derive不论是用作不及物动词,还是用作及物动词,都与介词from搭配使用,表示“从…得到或派生”。
derive作“取得”“获得”解时,可接乐趣、利益、知识等抽象名词作宾语。
derive from指“起源于”，可以用被动形式表达，也可以用主动形式表达。This idiom is derived from an ancient custom. This idiom derives from an ancient custom.

At every level of the hierarchy, we would use functional analysis to derive requirements and engineering methods to derive measures of effectiveness.
在此层级的每一级上，我们将使用功能分析来派生需求，并用工程方法来得出有效性度量。
These dynamic and static models could be used to derive all the read methods too, if we went through every permutation that you enumerated in your analysis.
如果要一一提供您的分析中列举的每种排列，则也可以将这些动态和静态的模型用于派生所有的读取方法。
A person to whom the words have no clear, conscious meaning may derive more from it than someone who reads it as I do, and so I recommend hearing or reading it however you will.
一个对那些话没有明确的，有意识的理解有可能会比比其他人，比如我读时从中衍生出很多其他想法。因此我建议，随你如何听，如何读。

It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.
换句话说，它不是，作为结果来自单一的先行的原因。
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As we mentioned in one of the earlier classes, these macronutrients differ in how much energy you can derive from them.
我在之前一节课提过,身体从不同大量营养素中吸收的能量不同
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We can't actually go ahead and derive this equation of the wave function squared, because no one ever derived it, it's just an interpretation, but it's an interpretation that works essentially perfectly.
从这个方程中,导出，波函数的平方，没有人可以这样做，这仅仅是一种解释，但这种解释，能解释的很好，自从它第一次被提出来之后。
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Designers question the structure of institutions and apply multiple skill-sets to derive solutions to complex problems.
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If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them.
If you say that something such as a word or feeling derives or is derived from something else, you mean that it comes from that thing.