Believe
[bɪ'liːv] or [bɪ'liv]
解释:
(verb.) accept as true; take to be true; 'I believed his report'; 'We didn't believe his stories from the War'; 'She believes in spirits'.
(verb.) credit with veracity; 'You cannot believe this man'; 'Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?'.
(verb.) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer; 'When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too'.
(verb.) be confident about something; 'I believe that he will come back from the war'.
比利校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.
(v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.
(v. i.) To think; to suppose.
约西亚整理
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Credit, give credit to, think to be true, give faith to, put faith in, rely upon, make no doubt of, put confidence in.
v. n. [1]. Exercise faith, have faith, have a firm persuasion.[2]. Think, suppose, conceive, fancy, apprehend, imagine, hold. OPINE, be of opinion, entertain the idea, take it.
伯特兰校对
解释:
v.t. to regard as true: to trust in.—v.i. to be firmly persuaded of anything: to exercise faith (with in on): to think or suppose.—n. Belief′ persuasion of the truth of anything: faith: the opinion or doctrine believed: intuition natural judgment (as used by some philosophers).—adjs. Belief′less; Believ′able that may be believed.—n. Believ′er one who believes: a professor of Christianity.—p.adj. Believ′ing trustful.—adv. Believ′ingly.—The Belief (arch.) the Apostles' Creed.—To make believe to pretend.
弗兰克编辑
例句:
- I believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that Dr. Ferrier, who lives near me, was going down by that very train. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He would have taken it before now, I believe, but for Fledgeby. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I say this here for two reasons--because I hope to avoid the critical attack of the genuine Marxian specialist, and because the observation is, I believe, relevant to our subject. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And I'm bound to say Lily DOES distract it: I believe he'd marry her tomorrow if he found out there was anything wrong with Bertha. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He was an officer in the Artillery, and a near relation to Lady Hyde Parker, I believe. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Although I had heard it with my own ears I could not believe it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I believed all I heard. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I could not have believed it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I am quite ready to go in for it, to the same extent as if I believed it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Faust was dissatisfied with Gutenberg, and took occasion to tell Sch?ffer one evening that he believed the firm would do better without the master. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- She has never believed any ill of him, never. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Cautious, very cautious, thought Emma; he advances inch by inch, and will hazard nothing till he believes himself secure. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He believes that Willoughby Smith had not an enemy in the world, and can give no reason for the crime. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- He knows of no direct bodily illness that he has; on the contrary, he believes that he has none. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Believes the same. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- But it is wrongfully; every one knows that; no one believes it, surely, Ernest? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Your Grace still believes me desirous of the honour I might obtain by forcing myself on you as your despised relative? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I now ventured to turn my head back, believing myself at a safe distance from the stranger. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- She ran along the sea beach, believing the old boat was theer; and calling out to us to turn away our faces, for she was a-coming by. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- When a man cannot measure, and a great many others who cannot measure declare that he is four cubits high, can he help believing what they say? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Believing, however, in the practicability of capturing Richmond unless it was reinforced, I made that the objective point of his operations. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- And what, said Fanny (believing herself required to speak), what could you say? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- He himself stayed in London, believing there were better chances for the sale of his machine there than in America. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
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