build
英 [bɪld]
美 [bɪld]
- vt. 建立；建筑
- vi. 建筑；建造
- n. 构造；体形；体格
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build 建造来自PIE *bheue, 存在，生长，居住。词源同booth, bothy.
- build
- build: [OE] In common with a wide range of other English words, including bower, booth, and the – bour of neighbour, build comes ultimately from the Germanic base *bū- ‘dwell’. A derivative of this, Germanic *buthlam, passed into Old English as bold, which meant ‘house’; the verb formed from this, byldan, thus originally meant ‘construct a house’, and only gradually broadened out in meaning to encompass any sort of structure.
=> boor, booth, bower, build, byre, neighbour - build (v.)
- late Old English byldan "construct a house," verb form of bold "house," from Proto-Germanic *buthlam (cognates: Old Saxon bodl, Old Frisian bodel "building, house"), from PIE *bhu- "to dwell," from root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow" (see be). Rare in Old English; in Middle English it won out over more common Old English timbran (see timber). Modern spelling is unexplained. Figurative use from mid-15c. Of physical things other than buildings from late 16c. Related: Builded (archaic); built; building.
In the United States, this verb is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fennimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune; the lawyer a reputation; the landlord a town; and the tailor, as in England, BUILDS up a suit of clothes. A fire is BUILT instead of made, and the expression is even extended to individuals, to be BUILT being used with the meaning of formed. [Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues," 1890]
- build (n.)
- "style of construction," 1660s, from build (v.). Earlier in this sense was built (1610s). Meaning "physical construction and fitness of a person" attested by 1981. Earliest sense, now obsolete, was "a building" (early 14c.).
- 1. If you build more plastics into cars, the car lasts longer.
- 如果汽车采用更多塑料元件，寿命会更长一些。
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- 2. She dusted herself down and left to build her own career.
- 她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。
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- 3. Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically.
- 约翰逊医生和我一直试图增强他的体质。
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- 4. The money to build the power station ought to have been sufficient.
- 建设电站的资金本该足够了。
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- 5. How much delay should we build into the plan?
- 我们应该为这个计划预留多少富余的时间？
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