Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 35
Bescorn (v. t.) To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." -- Chaucer.
Compare: Scorn
Scorn (n.) 輕蔑；藐視 [U] [（+for）]；嘲笑；奚落 [U]；藐視（或嘲笑）的對象 [the S] [（+of/ to）] The feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt.
‘I do not wish to become the object of scorn.’
[In singular ]‘A general scorn for human life.’
Scorn (n.) [Archaic] [In singular] A person viewed with scorn.
‘A scandal and a scorn to all who look on thee.’
Scorn (n.) [Archaic] A statement or gesture indicating scorn.
‘I met with scoffs, I met with scorns.’
Scorn (v. t.) 輕蔑；藐視；拒絕；不屑做 [+to-v] [+v-ing] Feel or express contempt or derision for.
‘I was routinely ridiculed and scorned by conservatives and liberals alike.’
Bescratch (v. t.) To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
Bescrawl (v. t.) To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. -- Milton.
Bescreen (v. t.) To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. -- Shak.
Bescribble (v. t.) To scribble over. "Bescribbled with impertinences." -- Milton. Bescumber
Bescumber (v. t.) Alt. of Bescummer
Bescummer (v. t.) To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Besee (v. t. & i.) To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Besought (imp. & p. p.) of Beseech
Beseeching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beseech
Beseech (n.) Solicitation; supplication. [Obs. or Poetic.] -- Shak.
Compare: Solicitation
Solicitation (n.) 懇切地要求；懇請；誘惑；拉客 The act of asking for or trying to obtain something from someone.
‘He was a regular target for solicitation of funds.’
‘People objected to receiving telephone solicitations.’
Solicitation (n.) The act of accosting someone and offering one's or someone else's services as a prostitute.
‘A woman arrested for solicitation.’
Beseech (v. t.) 懇求；哀求 [（+for）] [O2]；乞求，急切地要求得到 To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. -- Shak.
But Eve . . . besought his peace. -- Milton.
Syn: To beg; to crave.
Usage: {To Beseech}, {Entreat}, {Solicit}, {Implore}, {Supplicate}. These words agree in marking that sense of want which leads men to beg some favor. To solicit is to make a request, with some degree of earnestness and repetition, of one whom we address as a superior. To entreat implies greater urgency, usually enforced by adducing reasons or arguments. To beseech is still stronger, and belongs rather to the language of poetry and imagination. To implore denotes increased fervor of entreaty, as addressed either to equals or superiors. To supplicate expresses the extreme of entreaty, and usually implies a state of deep humiliation. Thus, a captive supplicates a conqueror to spare his life. Men solicit by virtue of their interest with another; they entreat in the use of reasoning and strong representations; they beseech with importunate earnestness; they implore from a sense of overwhelming distress; they supplicate with a feeling of the most absolute inferiority and dependence.
Beseech (v.) Ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" [syn: {bid}, {beseech}, {entreat}, {adjure}, {press}, {conjure}].
Beseecher (n.) One who beseeches.
Beseeching (a.) Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
Beseeching (a.) Begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring] [ant: imperative].
Beseechment (n.) The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] -- Goodwin.
Beseek (v. t.) To beseech. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Beseemed (imp. & p. p.) of Beseem
Beseeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beseem
Beseem (v. t.) Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.
A duty well beseeming the preachers. -- Clarendon.
What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God ? -- Hocker.
Beseem (v. i.) To seem; to appear; to be fitting. [Obs.] "As beseemed best." -- Spenser.
Beseem (v.) Accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem].
Beseeming (n.) Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.]
I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. -- Shak.
Beseeming (n.) Comeliness. -- Baret.
Beseeming (a.) Becoming; suitable. [Archaic] -- Be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seem"ing*ness, n.
Beseemly (a.) Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic]
In beseemly order sitten there. -- Shenstone.
Beseen (a.) Seen; appearing. [Obs. or Archaic]
Beseen (a.) Decked or adorned; clad. [Archaic] -- Chaucer.
Beseen (a.) Accomplished; versed. [Archaic] -- Spenser.
Beset (imp. & p. p.) of Beset
Besetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beset
Beset (v. t.) [(+by/ with)] 困擾，使苦惱 [H]；圍攻；包圍住；鑲，嵌 To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.
A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. -- Spectator.
The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. -- Evelyn.
Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." -- Milton.
Let thy troops beset our gates. -- Addison.
Beset (v. t.) To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." -- Milton. "Beset with ills." -- Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." -- Burke.
Beset (v. t.) To occupy; to employ; to use up. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Syn: To surround; inclose; environ; hem in; besiege; encircle; encompass; embarrass; urge; press.
Beset (v.) Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke].
Beset (v.) Assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards" [syn: beset, set upon].
Beset (v.) Decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) [syn: encrust, incrust, beset].
Besetment (n.) 困擾；圍攻；包圍 [U]；煩惱；麻煩事 [C] The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." -- Kane.
Besetter (n.) (pl. - s) One who, or that which, besets.
Besetting (a.) 不斷侵襲的；不時纏擾的 [B]；Beset 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.
Compare: Habitually
Habitually (adv.) 習慣地；慣常地 By way of habit; customarily.
‘He habitually carried a pocket knife.’
‘Does he lie habitually?’
Beshone (imp. & p. p.) of Beshine
Beshining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Beshine
Beshine (v. t.) To shine upon; to illumine.
Compare: Illumine
Illumine (v.) [Literary with object] (v. t.) 照明，明亮；啟發，啟迪 Light up; brighten.
‘He moved her lamp so that her face was illumined.’
Illumine (v.) Enlighten (someone) spiritually or intellectually.
Beshow (n.) (Zool.) A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.
Compare: Sablefish
Sablefish (n.) 裸蓋魚（學名：Anoplopoma fimbria）又名銀鱈魚、裸頭魚，是輻鰭魚綱鮋形目黑鮋亞目裸蓋魚亞目黑鮋科的其中一種，經常被與真正的鱈魚混為一談。後在南極海域發現南極犬齒細鱗魚的魚類，外觀雖與裸蓋魚完全不同，但也被稱為銀鱈魚，且市價更高。
The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) is one of two members of the fish family Anoplopomatidae and the only species in the genus Anoplopoma. [1]
In English, common names for it include sable (USA), butterfish (USA), black cod (USA, UK, Canada), blue cod (UK), bluefish (UK), candlefish (UK), coal cod (UK), coalfish (Canada), beshow, and skil (fish) (Canada), although many of these names also refer to other, unrelated, species. [2]
In the US, the FDA accepts only "sablefish" as the Acceptable Market Name; "black cod" is considered a vernacular (regional) name and should not be used as a Statement of Identity for this species. [3]
The sablefish is found in muddy sea beds in the North Pacific at depths of 300 to 2,700 m (980 to 8,860 ft) and is commercially important to Japan. [4] [5]
Beshrew (v. t.) 【古】詛咒；咒罵 To curse; to execrate.
Beshrew me, but I love her heartily. -- Shak.
Note: Often a very mild form of imprecation; sometimes so far from implying a curse, as to be uttered coaxingly, nay even with some tenderness. -- Schmidt.
Compare: Coaxingly
Coaxingly (adv.) 以巧言哄騙 See Coaxing.
Compare: Coaxing
Coaxing (n.) [Mass noun] 勸誘；哄；耐心地擺弄；Coax的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Persistent gentle persuasion.
‘He refused to return to the game despite the coaxing of his teammates.’
Coaxing (a.) 勸誘的 Gently and persistently persuasive.
‘They speak in a coaxing manner when they want something.’
Beshrew (v.) Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless].
Beshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.
Beshut (v. t.) To shut up or out. [Obs.]
Shut up 常常就像是字面上的意思一樣叫別人閉嘴。但在會話裡常常會被用來表達出自己無法置信的心情。通常在這種情況裡說出 Shut up 會帶有一種驚訝甚至是驚喜的意思。
A: John
proposed to me yesterday. John 昨天向我求婚了。
B: No way, shut up! 真的假的！
Beside (prep.) 在……近旁；在旁邊；和……相比；和……無關；離（題） At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." -- Milton.
Beside (prep.) Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.
[You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. -- Shak.
Beside (prep.) Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.
Note: [In this use besides is now commoner.]
Wise and learned men beside those whose names are in the Christian records. -- Addison.
To be beside one's self, To be out of one's wits or senses.
Paul, thou art beside thyself. -- Acts xxvi. 24.
Syn: Beside, Besides.
Usage: These words, whether used as prepositions or adverbs, have been considered strictly synonymous, from an early period of our literature, and have been freely interchanged by our best writers. There is, however, a tendency, in present usage, to make the following distinction between them: 1. That beside be used only and always as a preposition, with the original meaning "by the side of; " as, to sit beside a fountain; or with the closely allied meaning "aside from", "apart from", or "out of"; as, this is beside our present purpose; to be beside one's self with joy. The adverbial sense to be wholly transferred to the cognate word. 2. That besides, as a preposition, take the remaining sense "in addition to", as, besides all this; besides the considerations here offered. "There was a famine in the land besides the first famine." -- Gen. xxvi. 1. And that it also take the adverbial sense of "moreover", "beyond", etc., which had been divided between the words; as, besides, there are other considerations which belong to this case. The following passages may serve to illustrate this use of the words: Lovely Thais sits beside thee. -- Dryden.
Only be patient till we have appeased The multitude, beside themselves with fear. -- Shak.
It is beside my present business to enlarge on this speculation. -- Locke.
Besides this, there are persons in certain situations who are expected to be charitable. -- Bp. Porteus.
And, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril. -- Shak.
That man that does not know those things which are of necessity for him to know is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. -- Tillotson.
Note: See Moreover. Besides
Besides, Beside (adv.) On one side. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Shak.
Besides, Beside (adv.) More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.
The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides ? -- Gen. xix. 12.
To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a C[ae]sar dead. -- Pope.
Note: These sentences may be considered as elliptical.
Besiege (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Besieged; p. pr. & vb. n. Besieging.] [OE. bisegen; pref. be- + segen to siege. See Siege.] 圍攻；圍困；包圍，圍住；煩擾，困擾 [（+with）] To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. -- Shak.
Syn: To environ; hem in; invest; encompass.
Besiege (v.) Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent].
Besiege (v.) Cause to feel distressed or worried; "She was besieged by so many problems that she got discouraged".
Besiege (v.) Harass, as with questions or requests; "The press photographers besieged the movie star".
Besmirch (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Besmirched; p. pr. & vb. n. Besmirching.] 弄髒；使退後；糟蹋；玷污，損害（名譽等） To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. -- Shak.
Besmirch (v.) Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch].
Besmirch (v.) Smear so as to make dirty or stained [syn: smirch, besmirch].
Compare: Smirch
Smirch (Transitive verb) [With object] 弄髒；給……抹黑 Make (something) dirty; soil.
‘The window was smirched by heat and smoke.’
Smirch (Transitive verb) [With object] Discredit (a person or their reputation); taint.
‘I am not accustomed to having my honor smirched.’
Smirch (n.) 髒汙；汙點 A dirty mark or stain.
‘Standing before a small mirror on the inside of his door, Marker dipped his comb into a jar of orange blossom water, slicked his lobe-length black hair behind his ears, and wiped a green smirch off the bridge of his nose.’
‘Away from the sights and Bounds of a great city, with no fear of the smirch from its dusty streets and the weariness from contact with its perspiring crowds, beyond reach of the hum of the too familiar and overfond mosquito, the Summer girl has found a convenient bough from which to swing her hammock.’
Smirch (n.) A blot on someone's character; a flaw.
‘Therefore, who could be ashamed at the smirch of being a distinct and apparently separated branch of the church, if this struggle of not being what others are is necessary to retain Christ?’
Besnuff (v. t.) To befoul with snuff. -- Young.
Compare: Befoul
Befoul (v.) [With object] (v. t.) 使汙損；弄髒；玷汙；誹謗 Make dirty; pollute.
‘The dangers of letting industry befoul the environment.’
Compare: Pollute
Pollute (v.) [With object] (v. t.) 汙染，弄髒；玷汙，敗壞 Contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances.
‘The explosion polluted the town with dioxin.’
Pollute (v.) [With object] Defile or corrupt.
‘A society polluted by greed.’
Compare: Contaminate
Contaminate (v.) [With object] (v. t.) 弄髒；汙染；毒害；使受毒氣影響；使受放射性汙染 Make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
‘The site was found to be contaminated by radioactivity.’
‘Celebrity has contaminated every aspect of public life.’
Besogne (n.) A worthless fellow; a bezonian. [Obs.]
Compare: Bezonian
Bezonian (n.) 【古】無賴漢；新兵 [Archaic] A military recruit.
Bezonian (n.) [Archaic] A mean dishonest person: Scoundrel.
Compare: Scoundrel
Scoundrel (n.) 壞蛋，惡棍，流氓 [C] A dishonest or unscrupulous person; a rogue.
‘That scoundrel sets a bad example for the other young men.’
Besom (v. t.) 掃；清掃，打掃 To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic] -- Cowper.
Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. -- Barlow.
Besom (n.) 掃帚；金雀花 A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.]
I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. -- Isa. xiv. 23.
The housemaid with her besom. -- W. Irving.
Besom (n.) A broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle.
Besom (n.) The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning sweeper, occurs only in Isa. 14:23, of the sweeping away, the utter ruin, of Babylon.
Besomed (imp. & p. p.) of Besom
Compare: Broom
Broom (n.) 掃帚；長柄刷 [C]；金雀花 [U] A long-handled brush of bristles or twigs, used for sweeping.
Broom (n.) An implement for sweeping the ice in the game of curling.
Broom (n.) A flowering shrub with long, thin green stems and small or few leaves, cultivated for its profusion of flowers.
Cytisus, Genista, and related genera, family Leguminosae: many species and cultivars.
Broom (n.) (Countable and uncountable, pl. brooms) (Countable) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
Broom (n.) (Countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
Broom (n.) Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
Syn. besom
Broom (v.) (v. t.) 用掃帚掃；掃除 (Third-person singular simple present brooms, present participle brooming, simple past and past participle broomed) (Transitive, intransitive) To sweep with a broom.
Broom (v.) (v. t.) (Roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
英語單詞 broom 在辭典中有兩個釋義：1、掃帚，2、金雀花。這兩個看似不相關的事物是怎麼扯到一起的呢？原來，在古英語中，用來表示“掃帚”的單詞原本是 besom ，而單詞 broom 表示“金雀花”，一種長荊棘的小灌木。本來這兩個詞毫無關聯，但由於人們常常使用金雀花的枝葉來製作掃帚，因此人們將這種用金雀花枝葉製造的掃帚稱為 broom 。
隨著時間流逝， broom 的使用頻率越來越高，逐漸替代了besom一詞，成為“掃帚”的代名詞。
Besomer (n.) One who uses a besom. [Archaic]
Besort (v. t.) To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [Obs.]
Such men as may besort your age. -- Shak.
Besort (n.) Befitting associates or attendants. [Obs.]
With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. -- Shak.
Besort (v. t.) (-ed/ -ing/ -s) (Obsolete) To be suitable to.
Besort (n.) (pl. - s) (Obsolete) Suitable company.
Besotted (imp. & p. p.) of Besot
Besotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Besot
Besot (v. t.) 使糊塗；使醉 To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
Fools besotted with their crimes. -- Hudibras.
Besot (v.) Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation [syn: besot, stupefy].
Besotted (a.) Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." -- Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. -- Milton.
Besotted (a.) 昏愚的；沉迷……的；昏迷的；besot 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet].
Besottingly (adv.) In a besotting manner.
Besought (p. p.) of Beseech.
Bespangled (imp. & p. p.) of Bespangle
Bespangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bespangle
Bespangle (v. t.) 將……鑲以金銀箔；以閃亮之物裝飾 To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.
The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. -- Cowper.
Bespangle (v.) Decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn: spangle, bespangle].
Bespangle (v.) Dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects.
Bespattered (imp. & p. p.) of Bespatter
Bespattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bespatter
Bespatter (v. t.) 點綴；濺汙 To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.