beget

• vt. 產生；招致；引起；當…的父親

前綴be-, 強調。get, 古義，生育。

beget (v.)

Old English begietan "to get by effort, find, acquire, attain, seize" (class V strong verb, past tense begeat, past participle begeaton), from be- + get (v.). Sense of "to procreate" is from c. 1200. Related to Old High German pigezzan, Gothic bigitan "to get, obtain." Related: Begot; begotten.

1. He wanted to beget an heir.

他想生個子嗣。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes.

龍生龍, 鳳生鳳.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Economic tensions beget political ones.

經濟緊張導致政治緊張。

來自辭典例句

4. The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.

結婚的目的,能承認的惟有一個,便是生育些孩子,好為黨服務.

來自英漢文學

5. The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

正常人隻有兩種原始的激情: 贏得和引發.

來自互聯網