英:[bɪˈhəʊldən]
美:[bɪˈhoʊldən]
英:[bɪˈhəʊldən]
美:[bɪˈhoʊldən]
be·hold·en
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adjective
indebted for favors or material aid; obligated.He dislikes being beholden to anyone.
"有义务的,感激的,感激地受到约束的",14世纪中期,最初是 behold 的过去分词(并保留了 hold 的原始过去分词),但与此用法直接相关的意义在 behold 的众多和不同的含义中没有被记录。
Middle English, from past participle of beholden
The first known use of beholden was in the 14th century
beingnoun
the state of having life or existence
one that exists in fact or thought
a living thingespecially: human being
behooveverb
to be necessary, fitting, or proper for it behooves a good citizen to obey the law
such behavior ill behooves you
behoofnoun
advantage entry 1 sense 1, benefit
acted only for his own behoof
beholdverb
to look upon : see
beholdenadjective
being indebted for a favor or gift
1 On top of that, they fretted it would make Europeans cozier with — and more beholden to — the autocratic Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
2 Having a big bank account just means that I'm not beholden to others.
在银行有足够的存款意味着我可以自食其力。
3 But I felt beholden to communicate with everyone that communicated with me and I felt bad if I couldn't.
4 These films really injected this wanting to be a part of an autonomous crew, making the film they wanted to make, and not be beholden to a larger corporation.
5 I’ve argued for years that orchestras and opera companies inordinately beholden to standard repertory are not speaking to younger people who are instinctively curious about new, more adventurous work in all of the arts.
6 Losing ourselves in the soft, pastel-edged fantasy of Kondo's game, though, can remain a welcome distraction from the constant battles against faceless forces we are beholden to outside of the walls of our homes.
7 Also, giving food to the guests makes them more beholden to you.
8 We were much beholden to him for his kindness.
我们对他的好意感激万分。
9 Gene Kimmelman, president and chief executive of media watchdog group Public Interest, said he feared the ruling "leaves consumers beholden to dominant entertainment and cable companies that constantly raise prices and gouge consumers."
10 You're not beholden to people just because they love you; you can be as particular as you need to be.
11 Nor is she in any way beholden to the source material she collects in the dark forest.
12 Cersei’s relationship with the past is somewhat different — instead of feeling beholden to it, she is desperately racing to stay ahead of it.
13 His goal is not to make performers today feel beholden to the past in matters of ornamentation and rhythmic execution; after all, the style in Rossini’s day encouraged freedom and flair.
14 For once, or maybe the first time since the MCU entered this arena, we have a season of TV that doesn't feel overtly beholden to bridging other stories.
15 The cool, structural surface of the dance’s opening minutes increasingly gave way to busier, more emotive choreography, with Ms. Lang seeming all too beholden to the music’s most obvious and strident characteristics.
16 At the very least, all this is a tacit admission that the academy is not a passive participant when it comes to diversity in Hollywood, merely beholden to films made outside the organization’s purview.
17 By the time Linn opened his brick-and-mortar restaurant last summer, he had developed his own personalized pizza, born of the Neapolitan tradition but not beholden to it.
18 It led us to a conversation about how beholden the offender ought to be to apologize when they think there has been an overreaction.
19 This was the perfect peek into what we can expect from Colbert, something that was uniquely him and dreadfully funny, but still beholden to the new rules of the late night ecosystem.
20 In each capacity this unexceptional, gentle and rather passive man is beholden to the kindness of women, who prove to be the fairer sex in more ways than one, and ultimately the stronger as well.
1 铭感
3 有义务的
5 欠人情
7 感激
grateful thankful appreciative indebted touched thanks glory glad obliged thankfully gladly appreciation appreciate gratitude touch owe obligated thankworthy gratefully appreciatively thankfulness thankyou obligate with warmth
8 感谢
grateful thankful thanksgiving gratitude recognize appreciate return thanks thx glad appreciative obliged thanks appreciation acknowledgement thank you thank acknowledge
10 负有义务的