| 单词 | to bring about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bring about to bring about 1. To cause to happen, bring to pass, occasion, accomplish, effect. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE timberc897 letc900 rearOE doOE i-wendeOE workOE makeOE bringc1175 raisec1175 shapec1315 to owe (also have) a wold (also on wield)a1325 procurec1330 purchasec1330 causec1340 conform1377 performa1382 excite1398 induce1413 occasionate?c1450 occasionc1454 to bring about1480 gara1500 to bring to passc1513 encause1527 to work out1534 inferc1540 excitate?1549 import1550 ycause1563 frame1576 effect1581 to bring in1584 effectuatea1586 apport?1591 introduce1605 create1607 generate1607 cast1633 efficiate1639 conciliate1646 impetrate1647 state1654 accompass1668 to bring to bear1668 to bring on1671 effectivate1717 makee1719 superinduce1837 birth1913 the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > achieve or effect helpc1410 obtain?a1425 procurec1425 practise?a1439 upholdc1450 furnish1477 to bring about1480 to bring to passc1513 conduce1518 contrive1530 to make good1535 moyen1560 effect1581 effectuatea1586 to level out1606 operate1637 to carry offa1640 efficiate1639 work1761 engineer1831 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cciv. 186 Yf that thyng myght be brought aboute. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 7 The deuell was right gladde that he hadde brought this a-bouten. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 466/1 I bringe aboute my purpose. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 12 To bring his ends, and designes about. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 200 A revolt had been brought about in the city of Valencia. 1753 World No. 20. 107 Another proof of what people of fashion may bring about. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 239 He..had borne a chief part in bringing about the marriage. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 239 An accommodation was hardly brought about when Lewis died. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. iii. 139 The atrocities of the Greeks brought about a retaliation from the Latins. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] to make an endc893 afilleOE endc975 fullOE full-doOE full-workOE fullendOE fullfremeOE full-forthlOE fillc1175 fulfilc1300 complec1315 asum1340 full-make1340 performa1382 finisha1400 accomplishc1405 cheve1426 upwindc1440 perfurnish?c1450 sumc1450 perimplish1468 explete?a1475 fullcome1477 consume1483 consomme1489 perimplenish1499 perfect1512 perfinish1523 complete1530 consummate1530 do1549 to run out1553 perfectionate1570 win1573 outwork1590 to bring about1598 exedifya1617 to do up1654 ratifyc1720 ultimate1849 terminate1857 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 790 There stay vntill the twelue Celestiall Signes Haue brought about the annuall reckoning. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. v. 27 How many Houres brings about the Day. View more context for this quotation 3. To turn round; also figurative to reverse, convert. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > turn (something) to a (different) direction > turn round bewendc1000 beturn?c1225 to turn rounda1560 to bring about1680 round1890 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)] reversea1393 converta1425 undo1426 unmakec1450 recommencea1513 unweave1542 mismake1575 resubstantiate1584 unspin1587 remit1591 retrievea1596 remetamorphose1598 remorphize1603 reconvert1609 unlive1621 unravel1637 relapse1652 to bring about1680 uncoin1833 unpay1842 reset1846 revert1856 unweb1882 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 189 A thin String..would not so well bring heavy Work about. 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Rudens Prol., in tr. Plautus Comedies 152 He [Jove] knows each man that's perjur'd, or bribes his Judge to gain his cause; upon which, he brings it about i' th' upper Court. a1745 J. Swift Excellent New Song Now my new benefactors have brought me about. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. liii. 152 I had brought it [a canoe] about with a master hand. 4. To restore to consciousness, or to health, = to bring round at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > heal or cure [verb (transitive)] > restore to health healc1000 temperc1000 recoverc1330 covera1375 restorec1384 recovera1398 rectifya1400 revert1446 recruita1661 re-establish1664 to set up1686 to bring toa1796 reinstate1810 tinker1823 recuperate1849 to bring about1854 to pick up1857 to fetch round1870 re-edify1897 to pull round1900 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. viii. 62 That'll bring him about or nothing will. < as lemmas |
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