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behooves

/bih-hoof/US // bɪˈhuf //UK // (bɪˈhuːf) //

有利于,有助于,有益于,有利于促进

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural be·hooves [bih-hoovz]. /bɪˈhuvz/.

    • : use; advantage; benefit: The money was spent for his own behoof.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I will still say that it behooves us not to forget that Morsi was no democrat.

  • Given that said government is now spending almost a quarter of our annual income, it behooves us to keep an eye on it.

  • But nothing behooves a believer like condemnation—persecution is the mark of success, abandonment the measure of purity.

  • It well behooves those in high places to make their actions and opinions conform to their great destinies.

  • At the same time it is a truth which it behooves every religionist and particularly every Jew to believe.

  • It behooves us before everything else positively to ascertain that mediumistic phenomena exist.

  • It behooves me to learn something of the "Philosopher of Knigsberg," and I want these to ease the way.

  • But it behooves us old stagers to keep our lamps trimmed and burning to the last, and not trust to the sun's looming.