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单词 beholden
释义
beholden
adjective[after verb]
formal
uk
/bɪˈhəʊl.dən/us
/bɪˈhoʊl.dən/
feelingyou have adutyto someone because they have done something for you:
受惠的；感激的；欠人情的
Shewantedto beindependentand beholdentono one.她想独立，不想依赖任何人。
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(Definition ofbeholdenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

beholden| American Dictionary

beholden
adjective
us
/bɪˈhoʊl·dən/
feelingyou have adutyto someone who has done something for you:
They do notbenefitfromstatesubsidiesandthereforeare not beholden to thegovernment.
(Definition ofbeholdenfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbeholden

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Once we behold and arebeholdento the painting, we cannot escape its call, a call that is as profoundly moral as it is aesthetic.
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Another politician morebeholdento abstract principles might have attempted to move public opinion in the direction of a more migrant-friendly stance.
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The correct balance between beingbeholdento local interests and having local knowledge provides an important practical justification for territorial constituencies. 116.
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In his view, nationality was not pre-determined, and states, correlatively, were notbeholdento singularized, essentialized notions of nation.
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This view sees popular culture as semiautonomous: dependent on a prior structure, but not absolutelybeholdento it.
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Their electoral success meant that they were notbeholdento the party for their seats.
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It's hard to teach subversive farming in regular academic curricula, which is mostlybeholdento big industrial agribusiness interests anyway.
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They have little reason to feel grateful orbeholdento their regimes.
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So, is a parameter that captures howbeholdenthe candidates are to their parties.
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Nevertheless, however sympathetic these writers may have been, they remainedbeholdento a colonial outlook and worldview.
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The elected representative would then not bebeholdento any particular interest, but rather, be able to pursue the public interest free from partisan factionalism.
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Indeed, it is difficult to envision how progressive politics will spread far beyond the portion of the intelligentsia not directlybeholdento corporate interests.
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If we are to ask why a performance may or may not be boring, however, we arebeholdento explore and examine the processes going on within it.
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The respondents wished to avoid 'beingbeholdento people' and many adopted ways to make some recompense, such as offering petrol money and making gifts to people who provided transport.
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Though some advisory committees were established to consult with civil servants at various levels and on various issues, local administrators werebeholdenonly to their superiors.
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