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English German Earlier Dear Love Common Attested 213.Believe

正面 213.believe
英 [bɪ'liːv]美 [bɪ'liv]

背面
释义:
vi. 信任;料想;笃信宗教vt. 相信;认为;信任
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.

move 移动——movie电影(电影通过移动画面来放映)
believe 相信前缀be-, 强调。-lieve, 爱,同love. 因为爱所以相信。
believebelieve: [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, lovebelieve (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."

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