核心畫面
You can picture be as the quiet equals-sign of a sentence: it does no action, it just holds a subject up and says what is true of it — this is that, this is here, this is so. From that one still link grow everything else: existing, sitting in a place, having a quality, a price, an age — and, almost to invisibility, the little word that lets other verbs show tense, voice, or what is planned.
可以想成：be 像句子裡那個安靜的「等號」——它本身不做動作，只是把主詞托住、說出它「是什麼、在哪裡、怎麼樣」。從這…更多收起
可以想成：be 像句子裡那個安靜的「等號」——它本身不做動作，只是把主詞托住、說出它「是什麼、在哪裡、怎麼樣」。從這個靜靜的連結長出其他用法：存在、在某處、帶著某種性質、是多少錢、幾歲；再往下淡化，幾乎變得透明，就成了那個小小的助動詞，讓別的動詞能表現出時態、被動或預定要發生的事。原始詞典資料33 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beverb詞源 1/ˈbiː/
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As an auxiliary verb:
- The dog was saved by the boy.
- Study courses of Esperanto and Ido have been broadcast.
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As an auxiliary verb:
- The woman is walking.
- I shall be writing to you soon.
- 3
As an auxiliary verb:
- I am to leave tomorrow.
- They are to stay here until I return.
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As an auxiliary verb:
- He is finished.
- He is gone.
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As an auxiliary verb:
- 1996, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Tom Shadyac and Steve Oedekerk, screenplay of The Nutty Professor Women be shoppin’! You cannot stop a woman from shoppin’!
- Niggas be tellin' these bitches 'bout business
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As a copulative verb:
- There is just one woman in town who can help us.
- (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
- 7
As a copulative verb:
- Hi, I’m Jim.
- 3 times 5 is fifteen.
- 8
As a copulative verb:
- Rex is a dog.
- A dog is an animal.
另外 16 個記錄的用法
- 9
As a copulative verb:
- The sky is blue.
- Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remooue this cup from me: neuerthelesse, not my will, but thine be done.
- 10
As a copulative verb:
- The sky is a deep blue today.
- 11
As a copulative verb:
- This building is three hundred years old.
- I am 75 kilograms.
- 12
As a copulative verb:
- I’m 20 (years old).
- 13
As a copulative verb:
- It is almost eight (o’clock).
- It’s 8:30 [read eight-thirty] in Tokyo.
- 14
As a copulative verb:
- It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to "My grandmother died three years ago", but emphasizes the intervening period)
- It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
- 15
rareregionalAs a copulative verb:
- I saw her Monday was a week: I saw her a week ago last Monday (a week before last Monday).
- On the morning of Sunday was fortnight before Christmas: on the morning of the Sunday that was two weeks before the Sunday prior to Christmas.
- 16
As a copulative verb:
- and when he compares both sides, he will be some time at a loss to fix any determination.
- The bag was crisp with ice, and with my fingerless gloves I was a bit of time unholing the buttons. But I got the flap turned back at last, and there was Ryan grey-faced and stark.
- 17
As a copulative verb:
- Dinner will be ten minutes.
- It was an hour before he returned.
- 18
As a copulative verb:
- It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
- Why is it so dark in here?
- 19
As a copulative verb:
- When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
- "What do we do?" "We be ourselves."
- 20
literaryAs an intransitive lexical verb:
- The Universe has no explanation: it just is.
- That was the week that was.
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As an intransitive lexical verb:
- Let them be for a few hours.
- Leave us be until the guests arrive.
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As an intransitive lexical verb:
- The cup is on the table.
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As an intransitive lexical verb:
- When will the meeting be?
- 24
As an intransitive lexical verb:
- The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
- I have been to Spain many times.
benoun詞源 3/beɪ/
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The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。