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

• Sometimes crises beget bold leadership.
  有时危机会激发大胆的领导才能。
• He wanted to beget an heir.
  他想生个子嗣。
• Birthday celebrations don't beget longevity.
  作寿不会使人长寿。
• The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.
  一般唯有两种原始的豪：博得和引发。
• Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
  健康与欢乐相辅相成。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And previous studies have shown that older fathers are relatively more likely to beget daughters.
  以前的研究已经表明父亲年龄越大，生女儿的机会越大。
• God first thinks the world in thinking himself: to think oneself is to beget oneself, to think the world is to create the world.
  上帝先考虑的是世界而不是自己：考虑自己只是造就自己，考虑世界则是创造世界。