become
英[bɪ'kʌm]
美[bɪ'kʌm]
- vi. 成为;变得;变成
- vt. 适合;相称
词态变化
第三人称单数: becomes;过去式: became;过去分词: become;现在分词: becoming;
中文词源
become 变成
前缀be-, 强调。come, 来到。
英文词源
- become
- become: [OE] Become is a compound verb found in other Germanic languages (German bekommen, for instance, and Dutch bekomen), which points to a prehistoric Germanic source *bikweman, based on *kweman, source of English come. Originally it meant simply ‘come, arrive’, but the modern senses ‘come to be’ and ‘be suitable’ had developed by the 12th century. A parallel semantic development occurred in French: Latin dēvenīre meant ‘come’, but its modern French descendant devenir means ‘become’.
=> come - become (v.)
- Old English becuman "happen, come about," also "meet with, arrive," from Proto-Germanic *bikweman "become" (cognates: Dutch bekomen, Old High German biqueman "obtain," German bekommen, Gothic biquiman). A compound of be- and come; it drove out Old English weorðan. Meaning "to look well" is early 14c., from earlier sense of "to agree with, be fitting" (early 13c.).
双语例句
- 1. He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.
- 有些段落他演奏得异常徐缓,听上去有些忧伤。
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- 2. I denied my father because I wanted to become someone else.
- 我和父亲断绝了关系,因为我想成为一个不一样的自己。
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- 3. Many of the leaders have become hooked on power and money.
- 很多领导人都变得贪恋权力和金钱。
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- 4. All too often they become enmeshed in deadening routines.
- 他们时常陷入枯燥的日常事务之中。
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- 5. International investors have become jittery about the country's economy.
- 国际投资者已对该国的经济状况感到紧张不安。
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