Become

(verb.) enter or assume a certain state or condition; 'He became annoyed when he heard the bad news'; 'It must be getting more serious'; 'her face went red with anger'; 'She went into ecstasy'; 'Get going!'.

(verb.) come into existence; 'What becomes has duration'.

(verb.) undergo a change or development; 'The water turned into ice'; 'Her former friend became her worst enemy'; 'He turned traitor'.

(verb.) enhance the appearance of; 'Mourning becomes Electra'; 'This behavior doesn't suit you!'.

编辑:汤姆

• By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• But this does not mean that men will have become homeless and all adrift. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The peninsula of Italy was not then the smiling land of vineyards and olive orchards it has since become. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Why, do you not know that Sydenham and I are become man and wife? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She had sold it to become Sir Pitt Crawley's wife. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• After waiting some time Mrs. Clements became alarmed, and ordered the cabman to drive back to her lodgings. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The penniless Colonel became quite obsequious and respectful to the head of his house, and despised the milksop Pitt no longer. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Suddenly I became as it were the father of all mankind. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He became very confused and silent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What became of the two men? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called _blooms_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He becomes careful to instruct them, and attentive to assist and relieve them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When we look at near objects, the muscles act in such a way that the lens bulges out, and becomes thick in the middle and of the right curvature to focus the near object upon the screen. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• To save her from misconstruction, cruel misconstruction, that even my friends have not been able to avoid, becomes my duty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is not becoming in a sensible dog; anybody would think you were a silly young gentleman. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The satellite was gone; and Mr Inspector, becoming once again the quiet Abbot of that Monastery, dipped his pen in his ink and resumed his books. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Laughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I saw then that there was scarcely a chance of this ever becoming a practicable route for moving troops through an enemy's country. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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