- 1對…示好、跟…做朋友（常帶照顧、幫忙較弱或較生疏的人的味道）。
To befriend someone is to behave in a friendly way towards them, especially when they are younger, new, or in need of help. You befriend the shy kid at school; a neighbour befriends a lost tourist. The friendly act often comes from one side first. Though actually this is not always the same as “become friends.” Become friends can be two equals finding each other. Befriend can sound a little one-way — kind, even slightly parental — and older writing uses it that way on purpose. It is a little formal for chat, but not rare in stories and school talks about kindness. The prefix here makes a verb from friend: to treat someone as a friend, quite strongly.
組成be- (a prefix that turns the idea into a strong verb) + friend: to act as a friend towards someone.
同家族的字
- friendthe same friend; to befriend is to treat someone as one
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
befriendverb/bɪˈfɹɛnd/
- 1
To become a friend of (someone), to make friends with (someone).
- Good Seruilius, vvill you befriend mee ſo farre, as to vſe mine ovvne vvords to him?
- […] I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, […] Every little pine needle expanded and swelled with sympathy and befriended me.
- 2
To act as a friend to (someone, especially a client) by providing companionship and support; to assist, to help.
- [B]e ſure employ ſome of the Servants to hold the Horſe vvhen your Maſter mounts. This I vvould have you do, vvhen your Maſter only alights, to call in for a fevv Minutes: For Brother-ſervants muſt alvvays befriend one another, and that alſo concerns your Maſter's Honour; becauſe he cannot do leſs than give a Piece of Money to him vvho holds his Horſe.
- [O]ne house, a red one, occupied by an Irish section boss, whose wife (my mother having befriended her years before when first she and her husband came to Sullivan) had now, at the time my mother was compelled to make this return pilgrimage, befriended us by letting us stay—mother and us three youngsters—until she could find a house.
- 3
To benefit or favour (someone or something); also, to advocate or promote (someone or something).
- Hence therefore, euery leader to his charge, / For on their anſvvere vvill vve ſet on them, / And God befriend vs as our cauſe is juſt.
- Sooth[sayer]. […] [I]f it vvill pleaſe Cæſar / To be ſo good to Cæſar, as to heare me: / I ſhall beſeech him to befriend himſelfe. / Por[tia]. VVhy knovv'ſt thou any harme's intended tovvards him?
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。