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正面 140.become
英 [bɪ'kʌm]美 [bɪ'kʌm]

背面
释义:
vi. 成为;变得;变成vt. 适合;相称
例句:
1. He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.有些段落他演奏得异常徐缓,听上去有些忧伤。

1. no + ever => never.
become 变成前缀be-, 强调。come, 来到。
becomebecome: [OE] Become is a compound verb found in other Germanic languages (German bekommen, for instance, and Dutch bekomen), which points to a prehistoric Germanic source *bikweman, based on *kweman, source of English come. Originally it meant simply ‘come, arrive’, but the modern senses ‘come to be’ and ‘be suitable’ had developed by the 12th century. A parallel semantic development occurred in French: Latin dēvenīre meant ‘come’, but its modern French descendant devenir means ‘become’.=> comebecome (v.)Old English becuman "happen, come about," also "meet with, arrive," from Proto-Germanic *bikweman "become" (cognates: Dutch bekomen, Old High German biqueman "obtain," German bekommen, Gothic biquiman). A compound of be- and come; it drove out Old English weorðan. Meaning "to look well" is early 14c., from earlier sense of "to agree with, be fitting" (early 13c.)."

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