beg

英 [beg] 美[bɛɡ]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中低频词核心词汇

第三人称单数: begs;过去式: begged;过去分词: begged;现在分词: begging;

beg-乞讨，乞求，-白给-乞讨白给

beg 乞讨

词源不确定，俗词源认为来自于bag, 背包流浪乞讨的。

beg: beg: [OE] Beg first turns up in immediately recognizable form in the 13th century, as beggen, but it seems likely that it goes back ultimately to an Old English verb bedecian ‘beg’. This came from the Germanic base *beth-, from which English also gets bid.
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beg (v.): c. 1200, perhaps from Old English bedecian "to beg," from Proto-Germanic *beth-; or possibly from Anglo-French begger, from Old French begart (see beggar). The Old English word for "beg" was wædlian, from wædl "poverty." Of trained dogs, 1816.

As a courteous mode of asking (beg pardon, etc.), first attested c. 1600. To beg the question translates Latin petitio principii, and means "to assume something that hasn't been proven as a basis of one's argument," thus "asking" one's opponent to give something unearned, though more of the nature of taking it for granted without warrant.

1. We beg the Government on bended knees not to cut this budget.: 我们恳求政府不要削减这项预算。