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    Behold is a verb meaning to look at something, to see it with your eyes — often something striking, or something you are meant to stop and notice. It is an old, high-sounding word.

    Behold is a verb meaning to look at something behold 是動詞,意思是看著某樣東西, to see it with your eyes用眼睛看見它 — often something striking通常是某個很引人注目的東西, or something you are meant to stop and notice或是你應該要停下來注意的東西. It is an old, high-sounding word這是個古老、聽起來很莊重的字

    You find it in the Bible (Behold, I bring you good news) and in old stories.

    You find it in the Bible你會在聖經裡看到它(Behold, I bring you good news像「Behold, I bring you good news」)and in old stories還有在老故事裡

    Today people mostly use it for a joke or a bit of theatre: a cook lifts the lid and says Behold! People also say lo and behold when something surprising turns up, as if they were telling a tale. You would not say I beheld the bus on a normal day; you would just say you saw it. There is also a cry Behold! used like a pointing finger: look at this.

    Today people mostly use it for a joke or a bit of theatre現在人們大多拿它來開玩笑或營造一點戲劇效果: a cook lifts the lid and says Behold!就像廚師掀開鍋蓋說一聲「Behold!」. People also say lo and behold人們也會說「lo and behold」 when something surprising turns up當有出乎意料的事情出現時, as if they were telling a tale彷彿他們在說故事一樣. You would not say I beheld the bus on a normal day平常你不會說「I beheld the bus」; you would just say you saw it你只會說你看到了它. There is also a cry Behold!還有一種喊法「Behold!」 used like a pointing finger像用手指著東西一樣: look at this意思是「看這個」

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組成be- + hold. From Old English behealdan, which meant to hold, keep, watch over, and also to look at. The ‘look’ sense is the one English kept in behold. Dutch behouden and German behalten still mean ‘to keep’, which shows how the old ‘hold’ meaning lived on elsewhere.

同家族的字

  • holdthe second piece; behold was once ‘to hold with the eyes / to keep watch’
  • beholderthe person who beholds
  • beholdenthe old past form of behold, though the meaning later drifted away from ‘looking’

原始詞典資料5 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。

beholdverb/bɪˈhəʊld/

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    To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.

    • There's not the ſmalleſt orbe [in the sky] vvhich thou beholdſt, / But in his motion like an Angell ſings, / Still quiring to the young eide Cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortall ſoules, / But vvhilſt this muddy veſture of decay [i.e., the human body] / Doth groſſely cloſe in it, vve cannot heare it.
    • […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
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    To contemplate (someone or something).

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    To look.

    • Lo and behold.

beholdintj/bɪˈhəʊld/

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    look, a call of attention to something

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    lo!

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。