beget
英[b?'get]
美[b?'ɡ?t]
- vt. 產生；招致；引起；當…的父親
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?begets;過去式:?begot;過去分詞:?begotten;現在分詞:?begetting;名詞:?begetter;
中文詞源
beget 成為...之父
前綴be-, 強調。get, 古義，生育。
英文詞源
- beget (v.)
- Old English begietan "to get by effort, find, acquire, attain, seize" (class V strong verb, past tense begeat, past participle begeaton), from be- + get (v.). Sense of "to procreate" is from c. 1200. Related to Old High German pigezzan, Gothic bigitan "to get, obtain." Related: Begot; begotten.
雙語例句
- 1. He wanted to beget an heir.
- 他想生個子嗣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes.
- 龍生龍, 鳳生鳳.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Economic tensions beget political ones.
- 經濟緊張導致政治緊張。
來自辭典例句
- 4. The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
- 結婚的目的,能承認的惟有一個,便是生育些孩子,好為黨服務.
來自英漢文學
- 5. The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
- 正常人只有兩種原始的激情: 贏得和引發.
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