| 釋義 |
bestowvt.
1. give給予。
△As.5.4.6: “You say. if I bring inyour Rosalind./You will bestow her on Orlandohere?”您說，我若是把你的羅薩琳帶到這里來，您愿意把她給奧蘭多嗎？
△Oth.2.1.144:“But what praise couldst thoubestow on a deserving woman indeed”，但是對于一位真值得稱道的女人，你又怎樣贊美呢？
2. provide,afford,lay out供給，提供，安排。
△Ham.4.1.4:“ Bestow this place on us a little while.” i.e.Leave us. 請把這地方給我們暫用一會兒。
△H.V.2.1.12(11): “I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends.”(Hostess Quickly once promised to marry Nym butlater married Pistol,thus making them rivals to eachother.)我愿意請二位一頓早餐，讓你們和好。
3. grant轉(zhuǎn)讓。
△Oth. 4. 1. 12:“and being hers,/She may,I think,bestow ’t on any man.”既然屬于她了，我想她就可轉(zhuǎn)讓給任何人。
4.grant,confer把…授予，把…授與。
△3H.VI.4.1.56:“Or else you would not have bestowed the heir(i.e. heiress)/ Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife’s son.”要不然你也不會把邦維爾勛爵的女繼承人賞給你的新娘的兒子。
5. give away送掉。
△Tw.1.5.201(188):“for what isyours to bestow is not yours to reserve.”因為，你所有準備送人的東西，就不應該保留起來。(按：指“女人應該嫁人”。)
6.give lodging to,lodge,settle,place給…安排住所，供給住宿，使定居，安置。
△Lr.2.4.291 (288):“This houseis little,the old man and’s(= his) people/Cannot bewell bestowed .”這屋子太小，老頭子和他那些人可住不下。
△Lr.4.6.294 (286):“Come,father,I’ll bestow youwith a friend.”來，老人家，我送你到一個朋友那里去住。
△Mac.3.1. 30(29):“We hear our bloody cousins arebestowed / In England and in Ireland，” i.e. Malcolmand Donalbain have settled in England and in Ireland.我聽說我那位兇惡的王侄已經(jīng)分別逃到了英格蘭和愛爾蘭。
△1H.VI. 3.2.87:“Come,my lord,/We will bestowyou in some better place.”來，大人，我們要把你安置在一個更好的地方。
△Wiv.4.5.111(107):“and so they shall be both bestowed.”這樣她們兩個就都算有了著落。
△Ham. 22. 553(522): “Good my lord (= my good lord),will you see the players well bestowed?”好閣下，可否請你給這班演員好好安排個住處？
7. lead,bring,conduct帶領，陪送，引導。
△Oth.3.1.57(54): “I will bestow you where you shall have time/ To speak your bosom freely.”我領你去一個地方，在那里你可以隨意傾訴你的心事。
8. place,stow,put on board the ship安放，裝載，裝船。
△Mer.2.2.186 (170): “These things being bought and orderly bestowed，”這些東西買齊了，安放好了。
9. dispose of,stow away處理，收拾。
△Ham.3.4.176:“I will bestow him,and will answer well/The death I gave him. ”我先把他安頓好，再來擔當我把他殺死的責任。
10.conceal,hide隱蔽，隱藏。
△Ham. 3.1.33 (32):“We’ll so bestow ourselves that,seeing unseen,/ We may of their encounter frankly judge，”我們躲藏起來，看見他們而不被他們看見，便可以自由地審察他們?nèi)娴那樾巍?br/>△Ham.3.1.44 (43):“We will bestow ourselves.”我就去躲藏起來吧。
11. stow away. deposit收藏，存放。
△Ham.4.3.12:“Where the dead body is bestowed. my lord,/ We cannot get from him.”陛下，死尸藏在哪里，我們從他那里沒能問出來。
△Com.1.2. 78: “In what safe place you have bestowed my money”，你把我的錢存放到什么地方了？
△Wiv.4.2.48 (46): “How should I bestow him?”我怎樣把他藏起來呢？
12. employ,use使用，用。
△Ado.2.1. 238 (229): “and the rod he might have bestowed on you，”鞭子，他可以用到你的身上。
△Com.4.1.16: “And buy a rope’s end; that will I bestow/Among my wife and her confeder-ates，”去買 一根繩子，我要用它來對付我的妻子和她那一伙同謀者。
13.spend,employ花費，使用。
△Wiv.2.1.247(239):“’tis labour well bestowed.”這番力氣花得也合算。
△Wiv.2.2.206 (195):“bestowed much on her；”在她身上花了不少錢。
△2H.Ⅳ. 4.2.73: “and if you knew whatpains/I have bestowed to breed this present peace,/You would drink freely.”要是你知道我為了締造現(xiàn)在這次和平付出了多少心血，你就會開懷暢飲了。
△2H.Ⅳ.5.5.12(10):“O,if I had had time to have made new liveries,I would have bestowed the thousand pound I bor-rowed of you.”(you: Shallow.)啊，如果我有時間做幾套新制服，我從你那里借的那一千鎊就會花個一干二凈了。
△Tw.1.3.99 (92): “I would I had bestowed that time in thetongues,that I have in fencing,dancing and bear-bai-ting.”我真該把我花在擊劍、跳舞和耍熊上面的時間用在學習幾種外國語上面。
～ vb. refl.
1. conduct,behave,deport表現(xiàn)，舉止，行動。
△As.4.3.88 (86):“and bestows himself/Like a ripe sister；”舉止像是一位大姐姐。
△Gent. 3.1.87:“How and in whichway I may bestow myself”，我應該怎樣處身行事。
△2H.Ⅳ.2.2.186(169):“How might we see Falstaffbestow himself tonight in his true colours,and notourselves be seen?”我們今天晚上怎樣才能看看福斯塔夫露出本相，而我們自己不被他看見呢？
2. lodge,put up為…提供住宿。
△Mac. 3.6.23: “Sir.can you tell/where he bestows himself?”i.e. Where has he taken refuge?大人，你能告訴我，他現(xiàn)在在什么地方嗎？
3. betake,place使前往，使就位。
bestow yourself: take up your position,take yourplace,repair to your post在你的職位上安頓下來，就位吧，到你的崗位上去。
△H.Ⅴ.4.3.68: “My sovereign lord.bestow yourself with speed.”我的主上，請你趕快就位吧。 bestow[bi?st?u]v. 贈與，恩賜
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