believe
英 [b?'li?v]
美[b?'liv]
- vi. 信任；料想；篤信宗教
- vt. 相信；認為；信任
CET4TEM4考研CET6高頻詞基本詞匯
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?believes;過去式:?believed;過去分詞:?believed;現在分詞:?believing;
中文詞源
believe 相信
前綴be-, 強調。-lieve, 愛，同love. 因為愛所以相信。
英文詞源
- believe
- believe: [OE] Believing and loving are closely allied. Late Old English belēfan took the place of an earlier gelēfan ‘believe’ (with the associative prefix ge-), which can be traced back to a prehistoric West and North Germanic *galaubjan (source also of German glauben ‘believe’). This meant ‘hold dear, love’, and hence ‘trust in, believe’, and it was formed on a base, *laub-, which also produced, by various routes, English love, lief ‘dear’, leave ‘permission’, and the second element of furlough.
=> furlough, leave, lief, love - believe (v.)
- Old English belyfan "to believe," earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (West Saxon) "believe," from Proto-Germanic *ga-laubjan "to believe," perhaps literally "hold dear, love" (cognates: Old Saxon gilobian "believe," Dutch geloven, Old High German gilouben, German glauben), ultimately a compound based on PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (see belief).
Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered, perhaps by influence of relieve, etc. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c. Related: Believed (formerly occasionally beleft); believing. Expression believe it or not attested by 1874; Robert Ripley's newspaper cartoon of the same name is from 1918. Emphatic you better believe attested from 1854.
雙語例句
- 1. Words like " believe " and " receive " are a source of confusion in spelling.
- 諸如believe和receive這樣的詞在拼寫上容易混淆.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 2. I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana.
- 我相信他肯定非常擔心黛安娜。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I believe that a journalist should be completely objective.
- 我認為新聞記者不應當有絲毫偏見。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. And would you believe it, he's younger than me!
- 你信嗎？他比我年輕！
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. They can't believe you can even hold a conversation.
- 他們不敢相信你竟然能夠把一場對話進行下去。
來自柯林斯例句
