beget

英 [bɪˈɡet]

美 [bɪˈɡet]

v.  成为…之父; 引发; 导致

第三人称单数：begets　现在分词：begetting　复数：begets　过去式：begot　过去分词：begotten　

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BNC.32659 / COCA.19985

牛津词典

verb

• 成为…之父
  to become the father of a child
  1. Isaac begat Jacob.
     以撒生了雅各。
• 引发；导致
  to make sth happen
  1. Violence begets violence.
     暴力招致暴力。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 招致；导致；引起
  Tobegetsomething means to cause it to happen or be created.
  1. Poverty begets debt...
     穷则债聚。
  2. Economic tensions beget political ones.
     经济紧张导致政治紧张。
• VERB 成为…的父亲
  When a manbegetsa child, he becomes the father of that child.
  1. He wanted to beget an heir.
     他想生个子嗣。

英英释义

verb

• make children
  1. Abraham begot Isaac
  2. Men often father children but don't recognize them
  Synonym:getengenderfathermothersiregeneratebring forth

双语例句

• He wanted to beget an heir.
  他想生个子嗣。
• From this vantage point, you can see a shortage in aggregate demand, and the danger that low inflation today will beget even lower inflation tomorrow.
  从这个视角看，你可以看到总需求的匮乏，以及今天的低通胀带来明日更低通胀的危险。
• Sometimes crises beget bold leadership.
  有时危机会激发大胆的领导才能。
• I were going to beget a child knowing that the child was going to be a homicidal maniac.
  我明明知道自己的孩子将成为杀人疯子还要把孩子生出来。
• Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
  我要祝福他，使他繁衍，极其昌盛。他要生十二个族长，我要使他成为一大民族。
• For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
  当你的情绪激昂得如狂流，如暴风雨，如旋风时，你一定要有相当的自制能力，如此才能得到平稳及流畅的表达。
• The idea is that happy, empowered employees beget happy customers.
  他们的理念是，开心授权的员工带来开心的顾客。
• To live and cause to live, to eat food and beget children, these are the primary wants of men, and Chinese are no different from other people in this respect.
  自己生活也让别人生活、吃饭并生育后代，这是人类的基本要求，在这点上中国人同其他人没什么区别。
• Snob talk as if they have beget their own ancestors.
  小人大言不惭，简直把自己的祖宗也说成是他们生的了。
• The too-big-to-fail institutions that populated pre-crisis banking were the opposite of what free markets should beget.
  危机前银行业充斥的“大到不能倒”机构，与自由市场应该产生的结果背道而驰。