资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Occasion \Oc*ca"sion\ ([o^]k*k[=a]"zh[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Occasioned} (-zh[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Occasioning}.]
   [Cf.F. occasionner.]
   To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to
   occasion anxiety. --South.

         If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make
         several combinations of simple ideas into distinct
         modes.                                   --Locke.