核心畫面
Think of behave as an empty frame waiting to be filled in: it says that someone (or something) is doing things in a certain way, but not what way. On its own it carries no praise and no blame — that arrives with the word attached to it: behave well, behave badly, behave strangely, behave like a child.
可以把 behave 想成一個空的框：它只說「某個人（或某個東西）做出來的樣子是這樣」，但不說是哪樣。它本身不含褒貶…更多收起
可以把 behave 想成一個空的框：它只說「某個人（或某個東西）做出來的樣子是這樣」，但不說是哪樣。它本身不含褒貶，好壞是後面那個詞帶進來的——behave well、behave badly、behave strangely、behave like a child。也就是說，聽到 behave 你通常要再等一下，才知道講的是好還是壞。原始詞典資料4 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。
behaveverb/bᵻˈheɪv/
- 1
To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way; to conform.
- You need to behave yourself, young lady.
- And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism[…]
- 2
To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
- He behaves like a child whenever she's around.
- How did the students behave while I was gone?
- 3
obsoleteTo conduct, manage, regulate (something).
- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- But who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
- 4
To act in a polite or proper way.
- His mother threatened to spank him if he didn't behave.
- One time when Willie was more set on clowning than on learning about Jesus, Miss Helen ordered, "Willie Mack, you stand up against the wall until you learn to behave."
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。