be是什么意思_be怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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"

be identical or equivalent to;"One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"

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"

work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function;"He is a herpetologist"
"She is our resident philosopher"

represent, as of a character on stage;"Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

spend or use time;"I may be an hour"

have life, be alive;"Our great leader is no more"
"My grandfather lived until the end of war"

to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form;"let her be"

be priced at;"These shoes cost $100"

中英词源

be 是，存在

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

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]

词态变化

第三人称单数 is;
过去式 was; were;
过去分词 been;
现在分词 being;

权威造句

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.

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。

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。

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？

5. Three hundred million dollars will be nothing like enough.: 3亿美元远远不够。

近反义词

exist 存在

happen 发生

live 活着

occur 发生

befall 发生

remain 剩余

stay 停留

follow 跟随

take place 发生

come about 发生，产生，实现...

come 来

breathe 呼吸

hap 幸运

attend 出席

escort 护送者

betide 发生

arise 出现

accompany 陪伴

abide 遵守

bechance <古> 发生

dwell 居住

inhabit 居住于

occupy 占用

reside 居住

feel 感觉

crop up 突然发生

coexist 同时存在(于同一处)...

subsist 供给食物

spring up 跳起

transpire 蒸发

be located 位于

stand 站立

up 向上

place 地方

crop 农作物

take 拿

spring 春天

about 关于

located 处于

situated 位于

be 有

cost 费用

glucinium 铍

represent 表现

comprise 构成

personify 拟人化

make up 弥补

constitute 构成

beryllium 铍

embody 使具体化

equal 相等的

相似短语

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单词分析

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。

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