become

英 [b?'k?m] 美[b?'k?m]

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第三人稱單數:?becomes;過去式:?became;過去分詞:?become;現在分詞:?becoming;

become 變成

前綴be-, 強調。come, 來到。

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’.
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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 weorean. Meaning "to look well" is early 14c., from earlier sense of "to agree with, be fitting" (early 13c.).

1. He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.: 有些段落他演奏得異常徐緩，聽上去有些憂傷。

2. I denied my father because I wanted to become someone else.: 我和父親斷絕了關系，因為我想成為一個不一樣的自己。

3. Many of the leaders have become hooked on power and money.: 很多領導人都變得貪戀權力和金錢。

4. All too often they become enmeshed in deadening routines.: 他們時常陷入枯燥的日常事務之中。

5. International investors have become jittery about the country's economy.: 國際投資者已對該國的經濟狀況感到緊張不安。