2VERB [oft cont]乞討;乞求施舍 If someone who is poor is begging, they are asking people to give them food or money. 乞討;乞求施舍
I was surrounded by people begging for food. [VERB + for]
我被一群討飯的圍住了。
There are thousands like him in Los Angeles, begging on the streets and sleeping rough. [VERB]
洛杉矶有數以千計像他這樣的人,沿街乞討,露宿街頭。
She was living alone, begging food from neighbors. [VERB noun]
她孑然一身,向鄰居們討飯吃。
SYN scrounge [informal], bum [informal], blag [slang], touch (someone) for [slang]
3PHRASE 恕難苟同;鬥膽唱反調 You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone. 恕難苟同;鬥膽唱反調 [politeness]
4PHRASE 沒人要;沒人用 If you say that something is going begging, you mean that it is available but no one is using it or accepting it. 沒人要;沒人用
There is other housing going begging in town.
城裏還有些住宅無人問津。
5PHRASE 引起疑問,使人想問(一些人認爲此用法不正確) If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect. 引起疑問,使人想問(一些人認爲此用法不正確)
Hopewell's success begs the question: why aren't more companies doing the same?
霍普韋爾的成功讓人不禁要問:爲什麽其他公司不效仿呢?
6PHRASE (認爲問題已獲解決而)繞過問題 If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it assumes that the question has already been answered and so does not deal with it. (認爲問題已獲解決而)繞過問題