behoof
英 [bɪ'huːf]
美
英文词源
- behoof (n.)
- c. 1200, "use, benefit, advantage;" Old English had bihoflic "useful," implying *bihof "advantage, utility;" from Proto-Germanic *bi-hof "that which binds, requirement, obligation" (cognates: Old Frisian bihof "advantage," Dutch behoef, Middle High German bihuof "useful thing," German Behuf "benefit, use, advantage"). In the common Germanic compound, the first element, likely intensive, is cognate with be- and the second with Old English hof, past tense of hebban "to raise" (see heave (v.)). The original sense is perhaps, then, "taking up (for oneself)."
双语例句
- 1. The money was spent for his own behoof.
- 那笔钱是为他自己花的.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. Mr Smith toiled for this children's behoof.
- 史密斯先生为他的儿女辛劳.
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