首页英语词典bebe的意思

be

英 [biː] 美[bi]

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近义词befall betide attend escort accompany bechance follow

prep. 在，存在；是
n. (Be)人名；(缅)拜；(日)部(姓)；(朝)培；(中非)贝

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词态变化

第三人称单数: is;过去式: was; were;过去分词: been;现在分词: being;

中文词源

be 是，存在

来自PIE *bheue , 存在，生产，将要，同源词包括future, physics。

英英释意

1. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun);: "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

2. be identical to; be someone or something;: "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"

3. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere;: "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

4. have an existence, be extant;: "Is there a God?"

5. happen, occur, take place;: "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"

6. be identical or equivalent to;: "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"

7. form or compose;: "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"

8. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function;: "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"

9. represent, as of a character on stage;: "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

10. spend or use time;: "I may be an hour"

11. have life, be alive;: "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

12. to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form;: "let her be"

13. be priced at;: "These shoes cost $100"

英文词源

be

be: [OE] There are four distinct components that go to make up the modern English verb be. The infinitive form be comes ultimately from an Indo-European base *bheu-, *bhu-, which also produced, by other routes, future and physical. Its Germanic descendant was *bu-, which signified on the one hand ‘dwell’ (from which we get booth, bower, byre, build, burly, byelaw, and the final element of neighbour), and on the other hand ‘grow, become’, which led to its adoption as part of the verb expressing ‘being’ (in Old English particularly with the future sense of ‘coming to be’). Am and is go back to the ancient Indo- European verb ‘be’, *es- or *s-, which has contributed massively to ‘be’ verbs throughout all Indo-European languages (third person present singulars Greek esti, Latin est, French est, German ist, Sanskrit ásti, Welsh ys, for example) The Indo-European first and third person singular forms were, respectively, ésmi and ésti.

For the present plural Old English used the related sind(on) (as found in Latin sunt, French sont, and German sind), but this died out in the 12th century, to be replaced by are, which comes from a Germanic base *ar- of unknown origin. From the same source is the now archaic second person singular art. The past tense forms was, were come ultimately from an Indo-European base *weswhich meant ‘dwell, remain’.

Related words in other Indo-European languages include Sanskrit vásati ‘dwell, remain’ and Gothic wisan ‘remain, continue’.
=> booth, bower, build, burly, byelaw, byre

be (v.)

Old English beon, beom, bion "be, exist, come to be, become, happen," from Proto-Germanic *biju- "I am, I will be." This "b-root" is from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow, come into being," and in addition to the words in English it yielded German present first and second person singular (bin, bist, from Old High German bim "I am," bist "thou art"), Latin perfective tenses of esse (fui "I was," etc.), Old Church Slavonic byti "be," Greek phu- "become," Old Irish bi'u "I am," Lithuanian bu'ti "to be," Russian byt' "to be," etc. It also is behind Sanskrit bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens," bhumih "earth, world."

The modern verb to be in its entirety represents the merger of two once-distinct verbs, the "b-root" represented by be and the am/was verb, which was itself a conglomerate. Roger Lass ("Old English") describes the verb as "a collection of semantically related paradigm fragments," while Weekley calls it "an accidental conglomeration from the different Old English dial[ect]s." It is the most irregular verb in Modern English and the most common. Collective in all Germanic languages, it has eight different forms in Modern English:

BE (infinitive, subjunctive, imperative)
AM (present 1st person singular)
ARE (present 2nd person singular and all plural)
IS (present 3rd person singular)
WAS (past 1st and 3rd persons singular)
WERE (past 2nd person singular, all plural; subjunctive)
BEING (progressive & present participle; gerund)
BEEN (perfect participle).

The paradigm in Old English was:

	SING.	PL.
1st pres.	ic eom ic beo	we sind(on) we beoð
2nd pres.	þu eart þu bist	ge sind(on) ge beoð
3rd pres.	he is he bið	hie sind(on) hie beoð
1st pret.	ic wæs	we wæron
2nd pret.	þu wære	ge waeron
3rd pret.	heo wæs	hie wæron
1st pret. subj.	ic wære	we wæren
2nd pret. subj.	þu wære	ge wæren
3rd pret. subj.	Egcferð wære	hie wæren

The "b-root" had no past tense in Old English, but often served as future tense of am/was. In 13c. it took the place of the infinitive, participle and imperative forms of am/was. Later its plural forms (we beth, ye ben, they be) became standard in Middle English and it made inroads into the singular (I be, thou beest, he beth), but forms of are claimed this turf in the 1500s and replaced be in the plural. For the origin and evolution of the am/was branches of this tangle, see am and was.

That but this blow Might be the be all, and the end all. ["Macbeth" I.vii.5]

同义词辨析

exist, be, live

这些动词都有"存在"之意。

exist：通常指可观察到的或众所周知的存在现象。

be：指某时某地确存在的事物或现象，多与there连用。

live：多指有生命的东西的存在。指无生命事物时，强调可联想起生命的那些特点。

考试真题

to relaxto matureto harvestto reflectIt is more meaningful than other stages of life.

is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.

Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.

You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

Yoga is waking me up.

What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.

Urbanization – migration away from the suburbs and to the city center – will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report.

Top of Britons' toilet paper wish list is softness ( ' , 57%) followed by strength ( ' , 45%) and thickness ( ' , 36%).

To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

This type of memory ( ' , where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.

This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

They break routines, because autopilot is death.

The run has been taken; now is the time to leap.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.

The people with HSAM I've interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing.

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.

The bulk of the research shows that there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in the 40s or 50s, but this shift can be exciting, rather than terrifying.

The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.

Teamwork is most effective when team members share the same culture.

Such drastic change is not easy.

Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.

She never knows if the egg will break before the design is completed.

She is never sure what the final design will look like until the end.

Regardless of your stated preference, if you're ready to quit, quitting abruptly is more effective, says Dr.

Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism to ensure our brain doesn't become too full.

My memory is like a library of video tapes, walk-throughs of every day of my life from waking to sleeping, he explains.

Life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.

It may be the beginning of a crisis.

It is widely acknowledged.

It is unexpected.

It is their major source of protein in winter.

It is the most time-honored form of fancy art.

It is no longer fashionable.

It is more important to those with a longer lifespan.

It is misleading.

It is likely to change the narrative of one's life.

It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

It is idealized.

It is especially favored as a church decoration.

It is encouraging.

It is a welcome sign of the coming of spring.

It is a way of organising our memories.

It can easily be made into a work of art.

It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments, says Donohue.

It can be terrifying for the unprepared.

It can be quite rosy.

It can be burdensome.

It can be a new phase of one's life.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.

In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way to a network of teams.

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.

If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio, she said, and having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

HSAM can be both a curse and a blessing.

Group-think may be unavoidable.

For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.

Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations ( ' , 感受) and the experiences.

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

Even if your personal reinvention is less drastic, we think there are lessons from her experience that apply.

Environmental protection is not much of a concern when Britons buy toilet paper.

Each time this initial memory trace is replayed, it becomes even stronger.

Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy ( ' , 等级体制).

Decentralisation of authority was also found to be more effective in military operations.

Creating the future you want is a lot easier if you are ready to exploit the opportunities that come your way.

Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.

Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.

As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.

As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.

And when we retrieve ( ' , 检索) information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.

And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.

Although these numbers appear low, it is much higher than if people try without support.

According to a report by Deloitte, teamwork is becoming increasingly popular among companies.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

A longer lifespan is changing the narrative structure of life itself.

A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon ( ' , 追随一种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

is becoming increasingly popularbenefits sharers and users alikemakes researchers successfulsaves both money and laborMacy's reported its sales plunged 5.

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.

While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service.

Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.

To be more competitive in sales of beauty products.

They cannot be attributed to weather only.

They can be solved with better management.

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

They are more likely to be at risk of dying.

There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.

There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.

The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.

The outsourcing plan will be implemented.

The hope is that the success of COP 21 opens the door to future international agreement on carbon prices.

The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.

The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.

The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

The belief that research data is private intellectual propertyThe concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.

Some climate impacts may already be discernible.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible.

Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.

Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.

Part of it is communication; part of it is transportation.

Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.

Open data sharing is most important to medical science.

Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement.

None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.

Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

It's no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a problem.

It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.

It is imperative to protect scientists' patents.

It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.

It is backed by a campus spending analysis.

It is attributable to the rising value of the U.S. dollar.

It is a direct result of the global economic recession.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

In an email statement from the state's Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R.

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.

Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.

Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

Different upbringings set children on different paths and can deepen socioeconomic divisions, especially because education is strongly linked to earnings.

Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer's life in designer sportswear was a crude version of this relationship.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.

But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

At this time there is nothing to take action on since the analysis has yet to be completed.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic ( ' , 利他的).

Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.

About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

A commonly held view in the oil industry is that the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.

You are here to be educated.

With us to talk about the findings in this study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone.

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.

Well, my current research is really about consumer behaviour.

This is the reason you are here in a university.

The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

It is the busiest shopping day of the year.

If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.

I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.

However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

Young people should have lofty ideals in life and strive to be leaders.

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

"I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age" Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

"Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, " says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of children.

It is wise to take a day off to rest.

A 90-year-old has been awarded "woman of the year" for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A baby's play is nothing more than a game.

A build-it-yourself solar still is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available.

A century ago, the resource in question was oil.

A child's day is filled with fascination, newness and wonder.

A city is the product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's intelligence and creativity.

A coin is put into the cake, which signifies 预示 success in the new year for the person who receives it.

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

A common memory they all have of their school days is the school uniform.

A company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist.

A cousin to the watched-pot wait is the forced wait.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

A desk dictionary is medium-sized, generally containing over 170, 000 entries as well as extra features.

A desktop computer, screen, projector, and loudspeakers will be available.

A dog's eating habit requires regular training before it is properly established.

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A good neighbor is also one who likes to help out in small ways.

A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you'll love to live in.

A great decline in young work force is likely to occur in China, for instance.

A housekeeper is to clean up the kitchen.

A kitemark scheme would be workable on a nationwide scale.

A legend, also called a key, is a guide to the symbols and colors used in the graph.

A list of references must be included.

A listener in China, Wang ming, who is about to get an engineering degree, wants to know how American college graduates find jobs.

A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships.

A man was free if he was self-controlled.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

A multi-year drought (干旱) in south-east Brazil is becoming worse.

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

A rethink is required - and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten.

A salesman who is not punctual may not make a sale if he arrives late for an appointment.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left.

A smoke detector is on the ceiling in your room.

A software engineer by profession, Steve was a keen lover of the piano, and the only musician in his family.

A story showing people's generosity should be emailed to the editor at susan@sws.

A strong link is found between two species when a predator sticks to one prey species.

A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.

A sudden stop can be a very frightening experience, especially if you are travelling at high speed.

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by 2:00 pm.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman.

A t-shirt like this is much cheaper on the Internet.

A typical lion tamer in people's mind is an entertainer holding a whip at a chair.

A vehicle is polluting the air.

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

A winner is one with a great effort of will.

A year ago, when I was awaiting to hear the results of my college applications, I often went to websites for some type of insider look on what college would be like.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert: gravel (砾石), stones and rocks.

According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El nino's harmful effects.

According to Jennifer Debruyn, the next step of the study is to find out the source of the enzyme.

According to Johnsen, avoiding absorption is actually easy.

According to some developmental psychologists, a baby's play is somehow similar to a scientist's experiment.

According to the author, attention should be paid to how driverless cars can help deal with transportation-related problems.

According to the author, fish are most likely to be found in shallow water under waterside trees.

According to the author, the woman was probably enjoying herself.

According to the passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

According to the passage, human being are used to living in the day light.

According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk were more anxious.

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

Adaptation to climate change is challenging.

Adjusting to an upright position was quite a challenge, especially when the bones had to support an extra-large skull.

Admission is at normal charges and you don't need to book.

Adults understand what it feels like to be flooded with objects.

Advertisements persuade us that newer is better and that we will be happier with the latest products.

After all, "patty poem" gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

After all, a dollar was a tidy sum for an 11-year-old boy in 1961.

After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector was aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first.

After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

After hearing Steve's playing, Naomi was deeply impressed by his music.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

After my graduation, dad's business was getting back on track.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

After several weeks' successful work, I began to notice that egg production was going down.

After the concert, Naomi told the family that Steve's music was beautiful and professional.

After they were given an invitation to appear live on BBC, the Beatles quickly became famous in Britain with nationwide tours.

After two days stuck in the snow, Nicholas was saved.

After what seemed like a safe amount of time, I read the poem again and was confused.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

There is a marked difference between the education which every one gets from living with others, and the deliberate educating of the young.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account.

Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

Progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.

On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal ( ' , fatherly) wisdom - or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad.

In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the “survival of the fittest,” in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger, more advanced races and societies.

DNA testing is also the latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.

But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

Boas felt that the culture of any society must be understood as the result of a unique history and not as one of many cultures belonging to a broader evolutionary stage or type of culture.

All he needs to do is shell our $30 for paternity testing kit ( ' , PTK) at his local drugstore - and another $120 to get the results.

A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

The interdependence of the forest and its constituent tree species, ground flora, and fauna is taken for granted.

The evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value.

It is painful to read these roundabout accounts today.

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

Here again, evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who,according to the two-step-flow theory,are supposed to drive social epidemics by influcencing their friends and colleagues directly.

Unfortunately, banks’ lobbying now seems to be working.

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

To get the system working again, losses must be recognized and dealt with.

This development is boosting wholesale demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5 percent a year across Europe, compared with growth in retail demand of 1 to 2 percent.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

The truth will not be known for years.

The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of people was wearing, promoting or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

The idea is intuitively compelling,but it doesn’t explain how ideas actually spread.

The functioning of the market is based on flexible trends dominated by potential buyers.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

The details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

Is there any chance that Cardus's criticism will enjoy a revival? The prospect seems remote.

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

In re Bilski, as the case is known, is.

In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

In fact,they don’t seem to be required of all.

He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard: the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.

All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.

With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver，” creating our inner character and outer circumstances， the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

This ，however， would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument.

There is no gap between mind and matter.

The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us； where before we were experts in the array of limitations， now we become authorities of what is possible.

The sobering aspect of Allen‘s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

Part of the fame of Allen‘s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person， they reveal him.

In fat， circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter， we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless； this allows us to think one way and act another.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music.

This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for.

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one.

The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional.

Robert Willumstad left Citigroup in 2005 with ambitions to be a CEO.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record.

One of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” ( ' , read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

Menand, is to alter the way in which “the producers of knowledge are produced”.

词组搭配

as/that was

as someone or something was previously called

如过去所称

former Sex Pistol John Lydon (Rotten, as was).
过去的欲望枪手约翰•莱登（前称为罗登）。

the be-all and end-all

(informal)a feature of an activity or a way of life that is of greater importance than any other

(非正式)（活动或生活方式的）根本特点；要旨

be oneself

act naturally, according to one's character and instincts

表现得自然

been (或 been and gone) and——

(informal)used to express surprise or annoyance at someone's actions

(非正式)［表惊讶或恼火］竟然

they've been and carted Mum off to hospital.
他们竟然强行把妈妈送到了医院。

been there, done that

they've been and carted Mum off to hospital.
他们竟然强行把妈妈送到了医院。

be that as it may

they've been and carted Mum off to hospital.
他们竟然强行把妈妈送到了医院。

be there for someone

be available to support or comfort (someone) while they are experiencing difficulties or adversities

支持；安慰（困难或不幸中的）某人

not be oneself

not feel in one's usual physical or mental state

失常；感到不舒服

-to-be

[incombination]of the future

未来的

my bride-to-be.
我未来的新娘。

be about

见 about （介词义项1）

be at

be doing or trying to do

正在做；打算做

what are you at there?.
你在那儿干什么呢？。

be away

leave or set out at once

离开；出发

I'm away to my work.
我要去工作了。

be off

[often inimperative]go away; leave

滚开；离去

&B{be off with} you!.
你滚开！。

实用场景例句

It enabled students to devote more time to their studies, or to be more accurate, more time to relaxation.: 它可以让学生们有更多的时间来学习，或者更准确一点说，有更多的时间来放松自己。

The chemical agent, whether it be mustard gas or nerve gas, can be absorbed by the skin.: 这类化学制剂，不管是芥子气还是神经瓦斯，都会被皮肤吸收。

It hurt so badly he wished to cease to be.: 他觉得疼痛难忍，恨不得死了算了。

...to be or not to be.: 活着还是死去

She'd learnt to be herself and to stand up for her convictions.: 她已经学会了按自己的方式行事，坚持自己的信仰。

I could happily move back into a flat if it wasn't for the fact that I'd miss my garden...: 如果不是因为我会想念自己的花园的话，我会很乐意搬回公寓住。

If it hadn't been for her your father would be alive today.: 如果不是因为她，你父亲今天可能还活着。

She's always noticed. But then, to be honest, Ghislaine likes being noticed...: 她总是受到关注。但是说句实在话，吉莱纳喜欢被人关注。

What the media should not do is to exploit people's natural fears...: 媒体不应该利用人们天生的恐惧心理。

The fact is, the players gave everything they had...: 事实上，选手们尽了全力。

The plan is good; the problem is it doesn't go far enough.: 计划不错；问题在于不够深入。

This is happening in every school throughout the country...: 全国各地每所学校都在发生这样的事情。

She didn't always think carefully about what she was doing...: 她对自己在做的事情并不总是考虑得很清楚。

Forensic experts were called in...: 法医专家被请来。

Her husband was killed in a car crash...: 她的丈夫死于车祸。

The talks are to begin tomorrow...: 谈判将于明天开始。

It was to be Johnson's first meeting with the board in nearly a month...: 这将是近一个月来约翰逊首次和董事会碰面。

What am I to do without him?...: 没有他，我该怎么办？

Who is to say which of them had more power?...: 谁来决定他们之中谁的权力应该更大一些？

Then he received a phone call that was to change his life...: 然后，他接到一个将改变他一生的电话。

A few hours later he was to prove it.: 几个小时之后他将证明这一点。

Little traffic was to be seen on the streets...: 街上车辆很少。

They are to be found all over the world.: 它们遍布于世界各地。

She's my mother...: 她是我母亲。

This is Elizabeth Blunt, BBC, West Africa...: 英国广播公司的伊丽莎白·布伦特在西非为您报道。

It was too chilly for swimming...: 这时候游泳太冷了。

Sometimes it is necessary to say no...: 有时候拒绝是必要的。

Clearly there is a problem here...: 显然，这里出了个问题。

There are very few cars on this street...: 这条街道上车辆很少。

It was me she didn't like, not what I represented...: 她不喜欢的是我，而不是我的陈述。

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as/that was

the be-all and end-all

be oneself

been (或 been and gone) and——

been there, done that

be that as it may

be there for someone

not be oneself

-to-be

be about

be at

be away

be off

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