Beget

(verb.) make children; 'Abraham begot Isaac'; 'Men often father children but don't recognize them'.

编辑:思朋斯

• Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Good sense and genius beget esteem: Wit and humour excite love. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• To perform promises is requisite to beget mutual trust and confidence in the common offices of life. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• These qualities, therefore, being agreeable, they naturally beget love and esteem, and answer to all the characters of virtue. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• There was something about the bulk and weight of the old-time photographic outfit that failed to beget general enthusiasm. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As one invention necessitates and begets others, so special forms of machines for sawing and working up wood into pegs were devised. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He was very rich and very respectable, and he begot a prodigious large family--all in his favour, so far. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The war begot a spirit of independence and enterprise. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Who, I ask in amaze, Hath begotten me these? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My brother was begotten in his image. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It has been an age of long sorrow of such natures, in such a hell-begotten sort of world as ours. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Forget your foolish gratitude-begotten infatuation, which your innocence has mistaken for love. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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