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🔊/bɪ/
🔊/bɪ/
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  1. (in verbs构成动词) to make or treat somebody/something as使…变成；把…当作
    • Don't belittle his achievements (= say they are not important).不要贬低他的成就。🔊🔊
    • An older girl befriended me.一个年纪大些的女孩对我很友善。🔊🔊
  2. (in adjectives ending in -ed构成以 -ed 结尾的形容词) wearing or covered with穿着；戴着；裹着
    • heavily bejewelled fingers戴满珠宝的手指
    • bespattered with mud溅满污泥
  3. (in verbs and adjectives ending in -ed构成以 -ed 结尾的动词和形容词) to cause something to be使；使成为
    • The ship was becalmed (= there was no wind so it could not move).帆船因无风而停航。🔊🔊
    • The rebels besieged the fort.叛乱者包围了城堡。🔊🔊
  4. used to turn intransitive verbs (= without an object) into transitive verbs (= with an object)（与不及物动词结合，构成及物动词）
    • She is always bemoaning her lot.她总是怪命不好。🔊🔊
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    5. Word OriginOld English, weak form of bī ‘by’.