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单词 behest
释义
behest
noun
formal
uk
/bɪˈhest/us
/bɪˈhest/
atsomeone'sbehest/at the behest ofsomeone
because someone hasaskedororderedyou to do something:
按照…的要求；在…的命令下
Thebudgetproposalwasadoptedat the mayor's behest.在市长的要求下这项预算计划获得采纳。
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Giving orders & commands
(Definition ofbehestfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

behest| American Dictionary

behest
noun[U]
fml
us
/bɪˈhest/
arequest:
Congressadoptedthebudgetresolutionat the behest of thepresident.
(Definition ofbehestfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbehest

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Here blasphemy becomes the development and reformation of manners which occurs at thebehestof secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such investigations are, however, more likely to be instigated at thebehestof a consumer who perceives some injustice with regard to her allocation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Do not go out onto the streets at theirbehestand risk ruining yourselves (sharbonash).
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They believed that the state could act and that they had a right to demand that it act on their behalf and at theirbehest.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Proper citations are at least reintroduced, having been presumably removed at thebehestof the publishers in the earlier publication.
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Making sponsoring parents responsible for children who are created at theirbehestprovides security for children.
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The handful of arrests that had resulted did so only at thebehestof an empanelled grand jury.
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Unlike modern canals, where farmers have to hope for timely water supply, the tanks are captive reservoirs at thebehestof the users.
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Subjectivity does not enter into the equation until the establishment of perceptual judgement and memory has taken place upon that nonconceptual evidence at thebehestof the motivational module.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Lame-duck majorityparty members were at thebehestof party leaders who might have a say in patronage appointments.
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Certainly the bourgeois state does not work at thebehestof the ruling coalition as the rulers are not the instrumental agent of the dominant classes.
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The country is therefore liberalising, not only at thebehestof international actors or reformist elites, but also with active support and voluntary acquiescence from below.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Resource allocation operates at the jointbehestof message characteristics, grammar characteristics, and task characteristics.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The change in company and partnership law is being done at thebehestof the mighty and the greedy, and indeed the mighty greedy.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We have been panicked into this step at thebehestof a group of landed interests.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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