beg

英 [beg] 美[b?ɡ]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?begs;過去式:?begged;過去分詞:?begged;現(xiàn)在分詞:?begging;

beg-乞討，乞求，-白給-乞討白給

beg 乞討

詞源不確定，俗詞源認(rèn)為來自于bag, 背包流浪乞討的。

beg: beg: [OE] Beg first turns up in immediately recognizable form in the 13th century, as beggen, but it seems likely that it goes back ultimately to an Old English verb bedecian ‘beg’. This came from the Germanic base *beth-, from which English also gets bid.
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beg (v.): c. 1200, perhaps from Old English bedecian "to beg," from Proto-Germanic *beth-; or possibly from Anglo-French begger, from Old French begart (see beggar). The Old English word for "beg" was w?dlian, from w?dl "poverty." Of trained dogs, 1816.

As a courteous mode of asking (beg pardon, etc.), first attested c. 1600. To beg the question translates Latin petitio principii, and means "to assume something that hasn't been proven as a basis of one's argument," thus "asking" one's opponent to give something unearned, though more of the nature of taking it for granted without warrant.

1. We beg the Government on bended knees not to cut this budget.: 我們懇求政府不要削減這項預(yù)算。