beholden

大学 FREQ #34993

a. 负有义务的, 受惠的

发音

UK /bɪˈhəʊldən/
CA /bɪˈhoʊldən/
US /bɪˈhoʊldən/
AU /bɪˈhəʉldən/

别名

beholding

教材释义与例句

形容词

负有义务的；蒙恩的；对…表示感谢的

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.

    From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.

词汇关系

形容词

近义相关 1

obligated

词源

From Middle English biholden (“beholden, obligated”), past participle of biholden (“to behold, look at”, modern behold), though that verb does not mean "to bind, obligate".

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