核心畫面
Asking for something and humbly — putting yourself low and pleading because you want or need it badly.
可以想成「放低姿態、急切地討」：因為太想要或太需要某樣東西，於是不顧面子地懇求對方。抓住這個「低姿態地求」的畫面，後…更多收起
可以想成「放低姿態、急切地討」：因為太想要或太需要某樣東西，於是不顧面子地懇求對方。抓住這個「低姿態地求」的畫面，後面的意思就連得起來：窮人沿街討、狗作揖討食、客氣話裡的「請、容我」，乃至推理上「把還沒證明的當成已成立」，都帶著這股「向人討」的味道。原始詞典資料12 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。
Begname
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A surname from Hindi.
begverb詞源 1/ˈbɛɡ/
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To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
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To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him.
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To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.
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To obviously lack or be in need of something.
- A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation
- The colors in this cell are as dull as its architects must have been. An endless expanse of drab-green textured walls, contrasting with the gray concrete floor. It begs redecoration.
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In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
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In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
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obsoletelawTo ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.
begnoun詞源 1/ˈbɛɡ/
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The act of begging; an imploring request.
- “Lord,” I prayed, “it's a long time since I came to You for anything besides a quick beg for help. And it seems every time I come to You I'm asking something bigger, more impossible. But I'm here again. […]
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derogatoryslangA pretentious, attention-seeking, or eccentric person.
- Girls told me about not wanting to be seen by boys as "too much", "too loud", "weird", "annoying", a "pick me", or "a beg" (someone looking for attention). They told me how boys can be loud and funny, but that girls had better not.
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。