记忆方法
将“believe”拆分为“be”和“lieve”，想象自己“站”（be）在一座由“谎言”（lie）编织成的桥梁上，这意味着要相信别人的话，即使它可能是不真实的。这样的联想可以帮助记忆“believe”意为相信。
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词族 · believe
中文词源
believe 相信
前缀be-, 强调。-lieve, 爱，同love. 因为爱所以相信。
英语词源
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believe: [OE] Believing and loving are closely allied. Late Old English belēfan took the place of an earlier gelēfan ‘believe’ (with the associative prefix ge-), which can be traced back to a prehistoric West and North Germanic *galaubjan (source also of German glauben ‘believe’). This meant ‘hold dear, love’, and hence ‘trust in, believe’, and it was formed on a base, *laub-, which also produced, by various routes, English love, lief ‘dear’, leave ‘permission’, and the second element of furlough.
=> furlough, leave, lief, love - believe (v.)
- Old English belyfan "to believe," earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (West Saxon) "believe," from Proto-Germanic *ga-laubjan "to believe," perhaps literally "hold dear, love" (cognates: Old Saxon gilobian "believe," Dutch geloven, Old High German gilouben, German glauben), ultimately a compound based on PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (see belief).
Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered, perhaps by influence of relieve, etc. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c. Related: Believed (formerly occasionally beleft); believing. Expression believe it or not attested by 1874; Robert Ripley's newspaper cartoon of the same name is from 1918. Emphatic you better believe attested from 1854.
权威例句
- 1. Words like " believe " and " receive " are a source of confusion in spelling.
- 诸如believe和receive这样的词在拼写上容易混淆.
- 2. I believe he is most painfully anxious about Diana.
- 我相信他肯定非常担心黛安娜。
- 3. I believe that a journalist should be completely objective.
- 我认为新闻记者不应当有丝毫偏见。
- 4. And would you believe it, he's younger than me!
- 你信吗？他比我年轻！
- 5. They can't believe you can even hold a conversation.
- 他们不敢相信你竟然能够把一场对话进行下去。
词语辨析
【confide, rely, trust, believe】
这组词都有“相信，信任”的意思，其区别是：
confide: 侧重忠诚可靠与可信赖。
rely: 指在相信的基础上可进一步依靠，着重可靠性。
trust: 指绝对相信或信赖某人。
believe: 普通用词，常表示一种缓和、不太肯定的口气。
【reckon, think, count, consider, deem, regard, believe】
这组词都有“认为”的意思，其区别是：
reckon: 指对人或事作全面“权衡”，把各方面意见考虑进去后得出结论。
think: 普通用词，指按照自己的意见提出看法。
count: 指作出判断后而得出的看法等。
consider: 指经过考虑和观察后得出的结论。
deem: 正式用词，常用于法律、文学，强调作判断而不是思考。
regard: 侧重凭外表或表面现象作判断。多强调观点。
believe: 通常指根据一定的证据，经思考后而认为属实。
这组词都有“相信，信任”的意思，其区别是：
confide: 侧重忠诚可靠与可信赖。
rely: 指在相信的基础上可进一步依靠，着重可靠性。
trust: 指绝对相信或信赖某人。
believe: 普通用词，常表示一种缓和、不太肯定的口气。
【reckon, think, count, consider, deem, regard, believe】
这组词都有“认为”的意思，其区别是：
reckon: 指对人或事作全面“权衡”，把各方面意见考虑进去后得出结论。
think: 普通用词，指按照自己的意见提出看法。
count: 指作出判断后而得出的看法等。
consider: 指经过考虑和观察后得出的结论。
deem: 正式用词，常用于法律、文学，强调作判断而不是思考。
regard: 侧重凭外表或表面现象作判断。多强调观点。
believe: 通常指根据一定的证据，经思考后而认为属实。