英汉词典

be 基本解释

• prep. 在，存在；是
• n. (Be)人名；(缅)拜；(日)部(姓)；(朝)培；(中非)贝

be 词态变化

be 中文词源

来自PIE *bheue , 存在，生产，将要，同源词包括future, physics。

be 英文词源

be

be: [OE] There are four distinct components that go to make up the modern English verb be. The infinitive form be comes ultimately from an Indo-European base *bheu-, *bhu-, which also produced, by other routes, future and physical. Its Germanic descendant was *bu-, which signified on the one hand ‘dwell’ (from which we get booth, bower, byre, build, burly, byelaw, and the final element of neighbour), and on the other hand ‘grow, become’, which led to its adoption as part of the verb expressing ‘being’ (in Old English particularly with the future sense of ‘coming to be’). Am and is go back to the ancient Indo- European verb ‘be’, *es- or *s-, which has contributed massively to ‘be’ verbs throughout all Indo-European languages (third person present singulars Greek esti, Latin est, French est, German ist, Sanskrit ásti, Welsh ys, for example) The Indo-European first and third person singular forms were, respectively, ésmi and ésti.

For the present plural Old English used the related sind(on) (as found in Latin sunt, French sont, and German sind), but this died out in the 12th century, to be replaced by are, which comes from a Germanic base *ar- of unknown origin. From the same source is the now archaic second person singular art. The past tense forms was, were come ultimately from an Indo-European base *weswhich meant ‘dwell, remain’.

Related words in other Indo-European languages include Sanskrit vásati ‘dwell, remain’ and Gothic wisan ‘remain, continue’.
=> booth, bower, build, burly, byelaw, byre

be (v.)

Old English beon, beom, bion "be, exist, come to be, become, happen," from Proto-Germanic *biju- "I am, I will be." This "b-root" is from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow, come into being," and in addition to the words in English it yielded German present first and second person singular (bin, bist, from Old High German bim "I am," bist "thou art"), Latin perfective tenses of esse (fui "I was," etc.), Old Church Slavonic byti "be," Greek phu- "become," Old Irish bi'u "I am," Lithuanian bu'ti "to be," Russian byt' "to be," etc. It also is behind Sanskrit bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens," bhumih "earth, world."

The modern verb to be in its entirety represents the merger of two once-distinct verbs, the "b-root" represented by be and the am/was verb, which was itself a conglomerate. Roger Lass ("Old English") describes the verb as "a collection of semantically related paradigm fragments," while Weekley calls it "an accidental conglomeration from the different Old English dial[ect]s." It is the most irregular verb in Modern English and the most common. Collective in all Germanic languages, it has eight different forms in Modern English:

BE (infinitive, subjunctive, imperative)
AM (present 1st person singular)
ARE (present 2nd person singular and all plural)
IS (present 3rd person singular)
WAS (past 1st and 3rd persons singular)
WERE (past 2nd person singular, all plural; subjunctive)
BEING (progressive & present participle; gerund)
BEEN (perfect participle).

The paradigm in Old English was:

	SING.	PL.
1st pres.	ic eom ic beo	we sind(on) we beoð
2nd pres.	þu eart þu bist	ge sind(on) ge beoð
3rd pres.	he is he bið	hie sind(on) hie beoð
1st pret.	ic wæs	we wæron
2nd pret.	þu wære	ge waeron
3rd pret.	heo wæs	hie wæron
1st pret. subj.	ic wære	we wæren
2nd pret. subj.	þu wære	ge wæren
3rd pret. subj.	Egcferð wære	hie wæren

The "b-root" had no past tense in Old English, but often served as future tense of am/was. In 13c. it took the place of the infinitive, participle and imperative forms of am/was. Later its plural forms (we beth, ye ben, they be) became standard in Middle English and it made inroads into the singular (I be, thou beest, he beth), but forms of are claimed this turf in the 1500s and replaced be in the plural. For the origin and evolution of the am/was branches of this tangle, see am and was.

That but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all. ["Macbeth" I.vii.5]

be 词组搭配

be 英文释义

1. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun);

"John is rich"

"This is not a good answer"

2. be identical to; be someone or something;

"The president of the company is John Smith"

"This is my house"

3. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere;

"Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"

"What is behind this behavior?"

4. have an existence, be extant;

"Is there a God?"

5. happen, occur, take place;

"I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"

"There were two hundred people at his funeral"

"There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"

6. be identical or equivalent to;

"One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"

7. form or compose;

"This money is my only income"

"The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"

"These constitute my entire belonging"

"The children made up the chorus"

"This sum represents my entire income for a year"

"These few men comprise his entire army"

8. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function;

"He is a herpetologist"

"She is our resident philosopher"

9. represent, as of a character on stage;

"Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

10. spend or use time;

"I may be an hour"

11. have life, be alive;

"Our great leader is no more"

"My grandfather lived until the end of war"

12. to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form;

"let her be"

13. be priced at;

"These shoes cost $100"

be 同义词解析

exist, be, live

这些动词都有"存在"之意。

exist： 通常指可观察到的或众所周知的存在现象。

be： 指某时某地确存在的事物或现象，多与there连用。

live： 多指有生命的东西的存在。指无生命事物时，强调可联想起生命的那些特点。

be 双语例句

1. The verb " dance " is regular, but the verb " be " is not.

动词 dance 的变化是规则的, 但be的变化是不规则的.

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2. Instead of complaining about what's wrong, be grateful for what's right.

别抱怨不好的事，要对好的事心存感恩。

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3. The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.

你是什么样的人和你想成为什么样的之间的差距就是，你做了什么。

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4. What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple?

若IBM公司和苹果公司联手将会有什么效果呢？

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5. Three hundred million dollars will be nothing like enough.

3亿美元远远不够。

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be 实用场景例句

It enabled students to devote more time to their studies, or to be more accurate, more time to relaxation.

它可以让学生们有更多的时间来学习，或者更准确一点说，有更多的时间来放松自己。

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The chemical agent, whether it be mustard gas or nerve gas, can be absorbed by the skin.

这类化学制剂，不管是芥子气还是神经瓦斯，都会被皮肤吸收。

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It hurt so badly he wished to cease to be.

他觉得疼痛难忍，恨不得死了算了。

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...to be or not to be.

活着还是死去

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She'd learnt to be herself and to stand up for her convictions.

她已经学会了按自己的方式行事，坚持自己的信仰。

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I could happily move back into a flat if it wasn't for the fact that I'd miss my garden...

如果不是因为我会想念自己的花园的话，我会很乐意搬回公寓住。

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If it hadn't been for her your father would be alive today.

如果不是因为她，你父亲今天可能还活着。

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She's always noticed. But then, to be honest, Ghislaine likes being noticed...

她总是受到关注。但是说句实在话，吉莱纳喜欢被人关注。

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What the media should not do is to exploit people's natural fears...

媒体不应该利用人们天生的恐惧心理。

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The fact is, the players gave everything they had...

事实上，选手们尽了全力。

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The plan is good; the problem is it doesn't go far enough.

计划不错；问题在于不够深入。

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This is happening in every school throughout the country...

全国各地每所学校都在发生这样的事情。

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She didn't always think carefully about what she was doing...

她对自己在做的事情并不总是考虑得很清楚。

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Forensic experts were called in...

法医专家被请来。

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Her husband was killed in a car crash...

她的丈夫死于车祸。

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The talks are to begin tomorrow...

谈判将于明天开始。

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It was to be Johnson's first meeting with the board in nearly a month...

这将是近一个月来约翰逊首次和董事会碰面。

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What am I to do without him?...

没有他，我该怎么办？

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Who is to say which of them had more power?...

谁来决定他们之中谁的权力应该更大一些？

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Then he received a phone call that was to change his life...

然后，他接到一个将改变他一生的电话。

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A few hours later he was to prove it.

几个小时之后他将证明这一点。

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Little traffic was to be seen on the streets...

街上车辆很少。

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They are to be found all over the world.

它们遍布于世界各地。

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She's my mother...

她是我母亲。

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This is Elizabeth Blunt, BBC, West Africa...

英国广播公司的伊丽莎白·布伦特在西非为您报道。

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It was too chilly for swimming...

这时候游泳太冷了。

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Sometimes it is necessary to say no...

有时候拒绝是必要的。

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Clearly there is a problem here...

显然，这里出了个问题。

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There are very few cars on this street...

这条街道上车辆很少。

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It was me she didn't like, not what I represented...

她不喜欢的是我，而不是我的陈述。

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