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单词 befit
释义
befit
verb[T]
formal
uk
/bɪˈfɪt/us
/bɪˈfɪt/
-tt-
to besuitableorrightfor someone or something:
适合于，对…适当
She wasburiedin thecathedral, as befits someone of herposition.她被葬在大教堂墓地，和她的身份很相称。
Synonym
suit
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Being suitable or unsuitable
  • age-barred
  • appropriately
  • be made forsomeone/somethingidiom
  • become
  • behove
  • dress/look/act the partidiom
  • extravagantly
  • face
  • fill/fit the billidiom
  • findyourown levelidiom
  • level
  • make
  • order
  • out of orderidiom
  • part
  • someone'sface doesn't fitidiom
  • suit
  • suitsomeone(right) down to the groundidiom
  • unworthy
  • whitelist
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befitting
(Definition ofbefitfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

befit| American Dictionary

befit
verb[T]
us
/bɪˈfɪt/
-tt-
to besuitableorrightfor:
As befitsitsruralmountainsetting, the nine-roominnservesup ahugecountrybreakfast.
(Definition ofbefitfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbefit

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Ideally the ultimate goal of any remediation effort will be to reduce the concentrations of contaminants at the site to those befitting a pristine ecosystem.
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Such terms hardlybefita collaborator of empire or a spineless, self-serving monarch.
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His retainers offer, for nothing, various services befitting the size of their responsibilities.
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On the one hand, it portrayed u superstition as an example of inappropriate behavior not befitting a properly modern individual.
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On one level this is inevitable, befitting the selfimage of a party which has always valued leadership and hierarchy.
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The answer, befitting such a large multi-authored collection, is 'yes and no'.
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The significance of these associations was considered by means of cross-tabulations, as befitted the level of measurement.
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We therefore write targeted, benefited, headed but equipped, befitted, wetted.
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It is the same for "general classes" and for "ultimate species" (most special types), and befits a phenotype no less than a genotype.
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This doesn't seem tobefitthe way the world depends on a creator and sustainer.
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But what shall be his legacy, beyond the witticisms and all the doubting thatbefitthe admirable liberalism of the position?
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Wartime surveys usually focused on physical need, destruction and dilapidation, as befitted a nation that had been under enemy bombardment for some years.
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It yields relatively low estimates, as we think befits the notion of what is 'strictly necessary'.
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Early modern professors would teach, asbefitthem and the era, from canonical texts in the modern sense: classic or required texts.
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First, this shows us that the boys were being taught these subjects more formally, as befitted knowledge which might be professionally useful.
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