Definition of beg in English:

beg

verbbegs, begging, begged bɛɡbɛɡ

1reporting verb Ask someone earnestly or humbly for something.
恳求某人给予…
with object he begged his fellow passengers for help
with object and infinitive she begged me to say nothing to her father
她请求我对她父亲什么也别说。
no object I must beg of you not to act impulsively
请你切勿凭一时冲动行事。
Example sentencesExamples
- I beg of you, do not distress yourself over this.
- When he had left the house, he had pleaded and begged his grandmother to come with him, but she had refused.
- I'm begging anyone with any information to contact the police.
- So I beg of you, please, do not carry on this tradition.
- I beg of you please revive the life of this young boy, Hardy.
- I could hear her begging my father for my forgiveness, but I could also tell that she was failing as my father's voice dissipated completely.
- God please, please, please, I beg of you, make my feelings for Jalil disappear.
- ‘Please I beg of you, think of what your doing’ Eve said, pleading for her life.
- So, I beg of you, when you see a cyclist on the road, give plenty of space.
- Children cried and clung to their fathers, begging them not to go.
- I beg of you, mother, to walk me down the aisle for no other person would be suited to do so in my eyes.
- Meanwhile, farmers are begging their banks for the funds to survive.
- That night Paul and John begged their father to play.
- If I have done anything to screw it up, I beg of you to push it aside and forgive me.
- Save me from any more embarrassment, please I beg of you - whoever is in charge of embarrassing people!
- Michelle smiled at her other two friends, begging them to forgive him as she had.
- I pleaded for him and begged them to take me instead, but they forced me away.
- If I speak to you less often and seem less cordial than before, do not be offended, I beg of you.
- She bows down at his feet (no Pharisee in Galilee did that!) and presents herself humbly as she begs for his help.
Synonyms
beseech, entreat, implore, adjure, plead with, appeal to, pray to
ask, request, call on, petition, apply to
importune, exhort, enjoin, press
rare obsecrate
1. 1.1with object Ask for (something) earnestly or humbly.
  恳求某人给予…
  he begged their forgiveness
  他恳求他们的宽恕。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was right to go to the women, express her sincere regret and ask their forgiveness, but she was wrong to continue begging it once it was clear they would not give it.
  In every other aspect of daily life there's usually something that stands out and begs the attention of the eye or the ear - typestyles fall out of favor, and hence define an era.
  Just as I was about to beg their forgiveness, I saw the energy between them changing.
  The two delegates approached the supreme leader on several occasions trying to beg mercy for their fellow reformers.
  ‘Humbly do I beg your forgiveness, Lord,’ she said clearly, bowing her head.
  There are many others, in scouting, involved and I beg their forgiveness for not mentioning them by name.
  Luckily he is very polite and begs forgiveness.
  Do I find a Master and beg of him to solve this riddle?
  I most humbly beg leave to trouble your grace with these few lines.
  Then the exhausted Shackleton begs ships from numerous navies until he finally returns for his crew in an almost unparalleled saga of the bravery we all want to be able to show and only a handful ever manage.
  Then, embarrassed by his own behavior, Orlando begged their forgiveness and hurried to retrieve Adam.
  His eyes begged a silent plea of forgiveness, but she only shook her head.
  Synonyms
  ask for, request, plead for, appeal for, call for, sue for, solicit, seek, look for, press for
  rare impetrate
2. 1.2with object Ask formally for (permission to do something)
  正式请求（允许做某事）
  I will now beg leave to make some observations
  现在请允许我说几句。
  no object, with infinitive I beg to second the motion
2no object Ask for food or money as charity.
乞求施舍，索要，乞讨
a young woman was begging in the street
they had to beg for food
他们只好讨饭。
Example sentencesExamples
- They have gone to streets in town where they beg for money to survive.
- You might see two parents working hard for a living, and yet their children would beg for food in the streets.
- What is even worse is when people actively beg for money, in that they come up to you in the street and ask you for money.
- Egypt must not remain poor and must not beg for food from the international community.
- He recounts the incident of a man who came to beg for food for his starving child.
- The poor were also allowed to beg for money in these buildings.
- Their decision to beg seems to be paying handsome dividends.
- Maybe she could find the train station and beg for some money to catch a train out or town.
- She was so low on money these days that she felt the need to beg for money.
- Her husband, William Good, was a simple laborer and his inadequate income forced the Goods to accept charity and to beg for goods from their neighbors.
- He assumed that she was a wandering beggar who had come to beg for food and shelter.
- Every day poor people came to her house to beg for food and every day she sent them away with nothing.
- They beg for money, often using bits of broken English they pick up from the occasional soldier they encounter.
- He had to beg for money in order to eat, but received very little.
- At times we are forced to go and beg for food from nearby homesteads.
- So the crippled beg for food but are shown little compassion.
- I'm going to go beg for money and we might end up with enough to rent a room to stay for tonight.
- A man begging cornered me and asked me for some spare change.
- They were poor having no stock save a cow and a few hens, and often had to beg for food around the parish.
- A friend told me that it was better living on the street, because there you could beg for money and food.
Synonyms
ask for money, solicit money, seek charity, seek alms
informal sponge, cadge, scrounge, bum, touch someone for money
British informal scab
Scottish informal sorn on someone
North American informal mooch
Australian/New Zealand informal bludge
1. 2.1with object Acquire (food or money) from someone by begging.
  a piece of bread which I begged from a farmer
  我从一个农夫那儿讨来的一片面包。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They slept in the open and begged food from farmers.
  The journey took three days; he begged food and money along the way.
  She begged money from parishioners going to and from St Anne's Cathedral.
  Synonyms
  take as a loan, ask for the loan of, receive as a loan, use temporarily, have temporarily
2. 2.2 (of a dog) sit up with the front paws raised expectantly in the hope of a reward.
  （狗）坐着举起前脚乞求
  Example sentencesExamples
  A laugh escaped, she looked like a small puppy begging for attention again.
  Mom's eyes were like a puppy's begging for a scrap from the dinner table.
  The smartly dressed man shooed the boy away, as if it was an annoying dog begging for a piece of meat.
  His eyes were glinting with pleading; he looked like a dog begging for food.
  Her party trick is to stand on her back legs and beg for food very much like a dog begs.
  My tongue stops midway to going back into my mouth, with the ice cream still on the tip, I must look like a dog begging for a bone or something.
  He would sit up and beg for food every few moments, at which point Kayty would take something off of her plate and hold it out for him.
  It took him five minutes to walk to the backyard shed, inside would be the cute little puppy Shadow, whom would lick and beg for food from Chad.

Usage

The original meaning of the phrase beg the question belongs to the field of logic and is a translation of Latin petitio principii, literally meaning ‘laying claim to a principle’, i.e. assuming something that ought to be proved first, as in the following sentence: by devoting such a large part of the budget for the fight against drug addiction to education, we are begging the question of its significance in the battle against drugs. To some traditionalists this is still the only correct meaning. However, over the last 100 years or so another, more general use has arisen: ‘invite an obvious question’, as in some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour. This is by far the commonest use today and is the usual one in modern standard English

Phrases

beg one's bread

archaic Live by begging.
〈古〉以乞讨为生
Example sentencesExamples
- She had even to beg her bread on the streets; for who wanted to help the woman who wasted wheat?
- By this unlucky accident, he that had seen so much of the world for such a length of time was reduced to the most indigent state, and at length forced to beg his bread.
- He was a boy of nine years old when he buried first his father and then his mother, and he had no other resource than to beg his bread from door to door.
- Better were it for us to beg our bread and clothe ourselves in rags, than to part with Christian simplicity and frankness.
- Face flushing a deep red with anger, Lisette was of a mind to box Bess’ ears soundly then send her away to beg her bread as a vagrant along the roads.

beg the question

1(of a fact or action) raise a point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question.
（事实或行动）引发（人们考虑）尚未触及的问题；引出多数人都能想得到的问题
some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour
Example sentencesExamples
- Which begs the big question: What is the right thing?
- It does beg the question about whether its findings proved embarrassing.
- But the idea of biking around in cold weather, or bombing down a snowy mountainside, begs some obvious questions: isn't it kind of dangerous?
- In fact, it only begs the question of whether they have evolved at all.
- But that begs the question of why that deal happened now as opposed to two years ago and what we had to give up to get it.
- It seems that every political question ultimately begs the question, ‘how do we proceed?’
- It begs the burning question - are they engagement rings?
- Which begs the question: do you think they were raised by bears?
- She obviously didn't have a clue - which begged the question about why she was even here and how she'd even got the job.
- But we don't really believe that, and the topic begs other questions, like: How many younger women are rocking the establishment?
- Which begs a question: Who, then, is tougher than an opponent?
- In fact, it begs the question whether preserving today's national boundaries is a worthwhile goal.
- They are out there being a problem well past midnight which begs the questions, do their parents know where they are and what they are doing?
- Saying that the consideration is what moves the transfer begs the question, really, because the question here is, what does move it?
- It also begs the questions as to who benefits from these matches, because Clare can have learned little about themselves from what was little more than a training exercise.
- These facts beg the question: Are these AIDS awareness initiatives ineffective?
- But this obviously begs the question: who gets control of the remote?
- No real surprises here but it begs the question of why such obvious flaws were never caught in advance.
- It has proved difficult to argue for one choice over another without simply begging the question against competing positions.
- While the new questions do not seem provocative, they do beg the question: What is the point of it all?
2Assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it.
未经讨论就认为某一有待证明的论点（或主张）正确；把尚无定论（或有待证明）的事当作事实来看待；想当然，主观臆断
Example sentencesExamples
- The problem with many of the criteria is that they either assume what they seek to prove or simply beg the question.
- It might be argued that it begs the question to assume that exploitation can be mutually advantageous and consensual.
- And an argument that begs the question clearly does not work.
- There are two people internal to her investigative staff that have recommended an independent counsel on the basis of what we know today, and to say she wouldn't do it, begs the question.
- It may be objected that this argument begs the question.
- The argument has been criticized for begging the question: it assumes the universe is designed in order to prove that it is the work of a designer.
- It seems to me that this begs the question as well as implicitly assuming a kind of universal agreement about human rights that I don't think is historically supported.
- Hasn't Hume just begged the question against them - not so much proved that they are wrong as simply assumed it?
- These arguments are indeed plausible, but beg the question.
- But this begs the question, for it assumes that the state and religion arose from two independent sources.
- This argument assumes the conclusion, and so begs the question.
- It therefore begs the question and doesn't prove a thing about real-life biological evolution.

beg yours

I beg your pardon.
〈澳／新西兰〉对不起；请原谅
Example sentencesExamples
- I was stunned. I beg yours? Did you say ?

go begging

1(of an article) be available because unwanted by others.
（物品因别人不需要）随时可用
there was a spare aircraft going begging
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We are a country of the last minute,’ said Cesare Vaciago, director general of the Turin organising committee, in response to reports in the last fortnight that 370,000 of the one million available tickets were still going begging.
Synonyms
surplus, surplus to requirements, superfluous, too many, too much, supernumerary, excessive, in excess, going begging
1. 1.1(of an opportunity) fail to be taken.
  （机会）失去
  the home side had themselves to blame as chances went begging
  Example sentencesExamples
  Chance after chance went begging in the second half.
  They missed the chance to go ahead after seven minutes when a penalty opportunity went begging.
  This was a wake up call for the brothers and they started to convert the opportunities that had earlier gone begging.
  Although they scored four tries, at least five other golden scoring opportunities went begging.
  He wasn't so foolish to talk about all the opportunities that went begging.
  Synonyms
  unutilized, not made use of, unemployed, unexploited, not in service, non-functioning

Phrasal Verbs

beg off

Withdraw from an undertaking.
收回诺言，取消保证
I'd planned to take Christy to dinner, but I was in a mood, and I begged off
Example sentencesExamples
- So if you allow me, I'll beg off of a guess on that one.
- Granted, I begged off being a bridesmaid, so it could be worse.
- His first term as mayor began in 1352, he was re-elected the following year, and then for an unprecedented third consecutive term - on that occasion he begged off, but again served in 1359/60 and 1366 / 67.
- Could you picture someone like Kathy Griffin begging off a celebrity show because of mosquitoes?
- Something about his urgency penetrated Tennyson's chord-sotted brain: after a brief confused pause, he begged off the dance and went to look for Clara by the citrus and bubblegum punch fountain.
- That being the case I'm betting I can legitimately beg off spending Christmas with anyone and stick to my original plan of cleaning the kitchen, watching some dvd's and going online - after a very long lie in.
- I had to constantly beg off invitations to the local ‘tittie bar’ from co-workers, but our section of the warehouse stocked all forms of luggage and back packs, and to this day, I am fully stocked with all forms of luggage and backpacks.
- Only Casper - who insisted we were moving too slow, since by this time we'd climbed only one peak in 26 hours of travel - begged off.
- You know, when the weather's so rotten you can beg off school or work and no one thinks you're just being a bum?
- Karl begs off when first invited into her home, but returns when he finds she left her gloves in the cab.
- You can't know what types of arguments a future case might present, but you do know the arguments presented in past cases so there is no reason to allow a nominee to beg off on answering such a question.
- We were going to rehearse, but Drew's begging off,’ Cash, the drummer, remarked with a smirk.
- One thing I know… this one I won't be begging off of when the kids want to go see it.
- I've spent the last three nights working until 1am and I'm rather tired of it, so I'm going to beg off tonight.
- She has even had to beg off a meeting in Asia to make the round trip.
- I finally begged off on some excuse and put down the controller.
- Having posted a list of ‘Perfect Albums’ a while back, I'm half tempted to just beg off.
- You know, and Dean begs off the question, wisely, I thought.
- Through a spokesman, she begged off with a claim that she was ‘on a long-planned trip with her husband and two children.’
- But if you're going to use the ‘it's not my specialty’ excuse to beg off answering one question, why doesn't that stop you from making claims in all those other non-specialties?
- With no evidence of any of these matters, I had to beg off.
- People who forward too much volume or too little of interest find people begging off their lists.
- The Duke of Osaka has begged off from the evening activities; I understand that he was sorely traumatized that the people behind the attacks were members of his daughter's staff.
- Then Dailey begged off because he had just finished directing something.
- Mr. Thomas suggested a walk on deck after dinner, but Caroline begged off and hurried back to her cabin, leaving him to adjourn to the smoking room to mingle with the other male passengers in second class for a while before retiring to bed.
- Weak with laughter, I finally begged off… but only when he announced he had to go to the toilet and be funny in there.

Origin

Middle English: probably from Old English bedecian, of Germanic origin; related to bid².

Rhymes

cleg, egg, Eigg, Greg, keg, leg, Meg, peg, skeg, teg, yegg

Definition of beg in US English:

beg

verbbeɡbɛɡ

1reporting verb Ask (someone) earnestly or humbly for something.
恳求某人给予…
with object and infinitive she begged me to say nothing to her father
她请求我对她父亲什么也别说。
no object I must beg of you not to act impulsively
请你切勿凭一时冲动行事。
with object I begged him for mercy
Example sentencesExamples
- Michelle smiled at her other two friends, begging them to forgive him as she had.
- Meanwhile, farmers are begging their banks for the funds to survive.
- I'm begging anyone with any information to contact the police.
- If I have done anything to screw it up, I beg of you to push it aside and forgive me.
- That night Paul and John begged their father to play.
- I beg of you, mother, to walk me down the aisle for no other person would be suited to do so in my eyes.
- I pleaded for him and begged them to take me instead, but they forced me away.
- God please, please, please, I beg of you, make my feelings for Jalil disappear.
- She bows down at his feet (no Pharisee in Galilee did that!) and presents herself humbly as she begs for his help.
- I beg of you, do not distress yourself over this.
- Save me from any more embarrassment, please I beg of you - whoever is in charge of embarrassing people!
- I could hear her begging my father for my forgiveness, but I could also tell that she was failing as my father's voice dissipated completely.
- Children cried and clung to their fathers, begging them not to go.
- When he had left the house, he had pleaded and begged his grandmother to come with him, but she had refused.
- I beg of you please revive the life of this young boy, Hardy.
- So, I beg of you, when you see a cyclist on the road, give plenty of space.
- ‘Please I beg of you, think of what your doing’ Eve said, pleading for her life.
- If I speak to you less often and seem less cordial than before, do not be offended, I beg of you.
- So I beg of you, please, do not carry on this tradition.
Synonyms
beseech, entreat, implore, adjure, plead with, appeal to, pray to
1. 1.1 Ask for (something) earnestly or humbly.
  恳求某人给予…
  he begged their forgiveness
  他恳求他们的宽恕。
  with direct speech “Don't leave me,” she begged
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are many others, in scouting, involved and I beg their forgiveness for not mentioning them by name.
  The two delegates approached the supreme leader on several occasions trying to beg mercy for their fellow reformers.
  Just as I was about to beg their forgiveness, I saw the energy between them changing.
  His eyes begged a silent plea of forgiveness, but she only shook her head.
  Luckily he is very polite and begs forgiveness.
  Do I find a Master and beg of him to solve this riddle?
  ‘Humbly do I beg your forgiveness, Lord,’ she said clearly, bowing her head.
  In every other aspect of daily life there's usually something that stands out and begs the attention of the eye or the ear - typestyles fall out of favor, and hence define an era.
  Then the exhausted Shackleton begs ships from numerous navies until he finally returns for his crew in an almost unparalleled saga of the bravery we all want to be able to show and only a handful ever manage.
  Then, embarrassed by his own behavior, Orlando begged their forgiveness and hurried to retrieve Adam.
  I most humbly beg leave to trouble your grace with these few lines.
  She was right to go to the women, express her sincere regret and ask their forgiveness, but she was wrong to continue begging it once it was clear they would not give it.
  Synonyms
  ask for, request, plead for, appeal for, call for, sue for, solicit, seek, look for, press for
2. 1.2 Ask formally for (permission to do something)
  正式请求（允许做某事）
  I will now beg leave to make some observations
  现在请允许我说几句。
  no object we beg to inform you that we are instructed to wait
2no object Ask for something, typically food or money, as charity or a gift.
乞求施舍，索要，乞讨
a young woman was begging in the street
they had to beg for food
他们只好讨饭。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her husband, William Good, was a simple laborer and his inadequate income forced the Goods to accept charity and to beg for goods from their neighbors.
- The poor were also allowed to beg for money in these buildings.
- She was so low on money these days that she felt the need to beg for money.
- I'm going to go beg for money and we might end up with enough to rent a room to stay for tonight.
- He had to beg for money in order to eat, but received very little.
- They beg for money, often using bits of broken English they pick up from the occasional soldier they encounter.
- Egypt must not remain poor and must not beg for food from the international community.
- Maybe she could find the train station and beg for some money to catch a train out or town.
- He recounts the incident of a man who came to beg for food for his starving child.
- So the crippled beg for food but are shown little compassion.
- A friend told me that it was better living on the street, because there you could beg for money and food.
- They have gone to streets in town where they beg for money to survive.
- Every day poor people came to her house to beg for food and every day she sent them away with nothing.
- They were poor having no stock save a cow and a few hens, and often had to beg for food around the parish.
- You might see two parents working hard for a living, and yet their children would beg for food in the streets.
- At times we are forced to go and beg for food from nearby homesteads.
- What is even worse is when people actively beg for money, in that they come up to you in the street and ask you for money.
- A man begging cornered me and asked me for some spare change.
- Their decision to beg seems to be paying handsome dividends.
- He assumed that she was a wandering beggar who had come to beg for food and shelter.
Synonyms
ask for money, solicit money, seek charity, seek alms
1. 2.1with object Acquire (something) from someone by begging.
  求得，乞得
  a piece of bread that I begged from a farmer
  我从一个农夫那儿讨来的一片面包。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She begged money from parishioners going to and from St Anne's Cathedral.
  The journey took three days; he begged food and money along the way.
  They slept in the open and begged food from farmers.
  Synonyms
  take as a loan, ask for the loan of, receive as a loan, use temporarily, have temporarily
2. 2.2 (of a dog) sit up with the front paws raised expectantly in the hope of a reward.
  （狗）坐着举起前脚乞求
  Example sentencesExamples
  A laugh escaped, she looked like a small puppy begging for attention again.
  His eyes were glinting with pleading; he looked like a dog begging for food.
  Mom's eyes were like a puppy's begging for a scrap from the dinner table.
  It took him five minutes to walk to the backyard shed, inside would be the cute little puppy Shadow, whom would lick and beg for food from Chad.
  My tongue stops midway to going back into my mouth, with the ice cream still on the tip, I must look like a dog begging for a bone or something.
  Her party trick is to stand on her back legs and beg for food very much like a dog begs.
  He would sit up and beg for food every few moments, at which point Kayty would take something off of her plate and hold it out for him.
  The smartly dressed man shooed the boy away, as if it was an annoying dog begging for a piece of meat.

Usage

The original meaning of the phrase beg the question belongs to the field of logic and is a translation of the Latin term petitio principii, literally meaning ‘laying claim to a principle’ (that is, assuming something that ought to be proved first), as in the following sentence: by devoting such a large part of the anti-drug budget to education, we are begging the question of its significance in the battle against drugs. To some traditionalists, this is still the only correct meaning. However, over the last 100 years or so, another, more general use has arisen: ‘invite an obvious question,’ as in some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behavior. This is by far the more common use today in modern standard English

Phrases

beg one's bread

archaic Live by begging.
〈古〉以乞讨为生
Example sentencesExamples
- Better were it for us to beg our bread and clothe ourselves in rags, than to part with Christian simplicity and frankness.
- She had even to beg her bread on the streets; for who wanted to help the woman who wasted wheat?
- He was a boy of nine years old when he buried first his father and then his mother, and he had no other resource than to beg his bread from door to door.
- Face flushing a deep red with anger, Lisette was of a mind to box Bess’ ears soundly then send her away to beg her bread as a vagrant along the roads.
- By this unlucky accident, he that had seen so much of the world for such a length of time was reduced to the most indigent state, and at length forced to beg his bread.

beg the question

1(of a fact or action) raise a question or point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question.
（事实或行动）引发（人们考虑）尚未触及的问题；引出多数人都能想得到的问题
Example sentencesExamples
- But this obviously begs the question: who gets control of the remote?
- In fact, it begs the question whether preserving today's national boundaries is a worthwhile goal.
- Which begs the question: do you think they were raised by bears?
- Which begs a question: Who, then, is tougher than an opponent?
- They are out there being a problem well past midnight which begs the questions, do their parents know where they are and what they are doing?
- While the new questions do not seem provocative, they do beg the question: What is the point of it all?
- Saying that the consideration is what moves the transfer begs the question, really, because the question here is, what does move it?
- No real surprises here but it begs the question of why such obvious flaws were never caught in advance.
- These facts beg the question: Are these AIDS awareness initiatives ineffective?
- It seems that every political question ultimately begs the question, ‘how do we proceed?’
- But we don't really believe that, and the topic begs other questions, like: How many younger women are rocking the establishment?
- But the idea of biking around in cold weather, or bombing down a snowy mountainside, begs some obvious questions: isn't it kind of dangerous?
- It begs the burning question - are they engagement rings?
- Which begs the big question: What is the right thing?
- It does beg the question about whether its findings proved embarrassing.
- In fact, it only begs the question of whether they have evolved at all.
- It also begs the questions as to who benefits from these matches, because Clare can have learned little about themselves from what was little more than a training exercise.
- She obviously didn't have a clue - which begged the question about why she was even here and how she'd even got the job.
- It has proved difficult to argue for one choice over another without simply begging the question against competing positions.
- But that begs the question of why that deal happened now as opposed to two years ago and what we had to give up to get it.
2Assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it.
未经讨论就认为某一有待证明的论点（或主张）正确；把尚无定论（或有待证明）的事当作事实来看待；想当然，主观臆断
Example sentencesExamples
- But this begs the question, for it assumes that the state and religion arose from two independent sources.
- Hasn't Hume just begged the question against them - not so much proved that they are wrong as simply assumed it?
- There are two people internal to her investigative staff that have recommended an independent counsel on the basis of what we know today, and to say she wouldn't do it, begs the question.
- It therefore begs the question and doesn't prove a thing about real-life biological evolution.
- It might be argued that it begs the question to assume that exploitation can be mutually advantageous and consensual.
- And an argument that begs the question clearly does not work.
- The argument has been criticized for begging the question: it assumes the universe is designed in order to prove that it is the work of a designer.
- The problem with many of the criteria is that they either assume what they seek to prove or simply beg the question.
- This argument assumes the conclusion, and so begs the question.
- It seems to me that this begs the question as well as implicitly assuming a kind of universal agreement about human rights that I don't think is historically supported.
- These arguments are indeed plausible, but beg the question.
- It may be objected that this argument begs the question.
3Avoid the question; evade the issue.
Example sentencesExamples
- That, with due respect, assumes a huge link between the two, which rather begs the question.
- This is especially true of objection that the ontological argument begs the question.
- But the hypothetical scenario begs the question.
- First, Fetter maintained that those examples that assumed a rate of productivity begged the question and failed to establish technical productivity as a cause of interest.
- But in any case, the argument fails, since it clearly begs the question at last step.

go begging

1(of an article) be available for use because unwanted by others.
（物品因别人不需要）随时可用
half the apartments in New York go begging in the summer
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We are a country of the last minute,’ said Cesare Vaciago, director general of the Turin organising committee, in response to reports in the last fortnight that 370,000 of the one million available tickets were still going begging.
Synonyms
surplus, surplus to requirements, superfluous, too many, too much, supernumerary, excessive, in excess, going begging
1. 1.1(of an opportunity) not be taken.
  （机会）失去
  we let so many good chances go begging
  Example sentencesExamples
  They missed the chance to go ahead after seven minutes when a penalty opportunity went begging.
  Although they scored four tries, at least five other golden scoring opportunities went begging.
  Chance after chance went begging in the second half.
  This was a wake up call for the brothers and they started to convert the opportunities that had earlier gone begging.
  He wasn't so foolish to talk about all the opportunities that went begging.
  Synonyms
  unutilized, not made use of, unemployed, unexploited, not in service, non-functioning

beg, borrow, or steal

Do whatever may be necessary to acquire something greatly desired.
I'm gonna get the money to buy Casey's ring, even if I have to beg, borrow, or steal
Example sentencesExamples
- It was issued to the Union troops starting with breakfast, and it was consumed in heroic quantities by every soldier who could beg, borrow, or steal a keg.
- Tickets won't be easy to come by but whether you have to beg, borrow, or steal, you don't want to miss these two games.
- As the pool of accounting students shrinks, employers scramble to beg, borrow, or steal entry-level finance staffers.
- Perhaps Americans are more willing to beg, borrow, or steal ideas that work than Europeans are.
- The women and seniors should beg, borrow, or steal in order to incorporate some of those ideas.

beg off

Request to be excused from a question or obligation.
asked to name her favorites from her films, Hepburn begs off

Phrasal Verbs

beg off

Request to be excused from a question or obligation.
asked to name her favorites from her films, Hepburn begs off

Origin

Middle English: probably from Old English bedecian, of Germanic origin; related to bid.

词汇	beg
释义	Definition of beg in English: beg verbbegs, begging, begged bɛɡbɛɡ 1reporting verb Ask someone earnestly or humbly for something. 恳求某人给予… with object he begged his fellow passengers for help with object and infinitive she begged me to say nothing to her father 她请求我对她父亲什么也别说。 no object I must beg of you not to act impulsively 请你切勿凭一时冲动行事。 Example sentencesExamples I beg of you, do not distress yourself over this. When he had left the house, he had pleaded and begged his grandmother to come with him, but she had refused. I'm begging anyone with any information to contact the police. So I beg of you, please, do not carry on this tradition. I beg of you please revive the life of this young boy, Hardy. I could hear her begging my father for my forgiveness, but I could also tell that she was failing as my father's voice dissipated completely. God please, please, please, I beg of you, make my feelings for Jalil disappear. ‘Please I beg of you, think of what your doing’ Eve said, pleading for her life. So, I beg of you, when you see a cyclist on the road, give plenty of space. Children cried and clung to their fathers, begging them not to go. I beg of you, mother, to walk me down the aisle for no other person would be suited to do so in my eyes. Meanwhile, farmers are begging their banks for the funds to survive. That night Paul and John begged their father to play. If I have done anything to screw it up, I beg of you to push it aside and forgive me. Save me from any more embarrassment, please I beg of you - whoever is in charge of embarrassing people! Michelle smiled at her other two friends, begging them to forgive him as she had. I pleaded for him and begged them to take me instead, but they forced me away. If I speak to you less often and seem less cordial than before, do not be offended, I beg of you. She bows down at his feet (no Pharisee in Galilee did that!) and presents herself humbly as she begs for his help. Synonyms beseech, entreat, implore, adjure, plead with, appeal to, pray to ask, request, call on, petition, apply to importune, exhort, enjoin, press rare obsecrate 1.1with object Ask for (something) earnestly or humbly. 恳求某人给予… he begged their forgiveness 他恳求他们的宽恕。 Example sentencesExamples She was right to go to the women, express her sincere regret and ask their forgiveness, but she was wrong to continue begging it once it was clear they would not give it. In every other aspect of daily life there's usually something that stands out and begs the attention of the eye or the ear - typestyles fall out of favor, and hence define an era. Just as I was about to beg their forgiveness, I saw the energy between them changing. The two delegates approached the supreme leader on several occasions trying to beg mercy for their fellow reformers. ‘Humbly do I beg your forgiveness, Lord,’ she said clearly, bowing her head. There are many others, in scouting, involved and I beg their forgiveness for not mentioning them by name. Luckily he is very polite and begs forgiveness. Do I find a Master and beg of him to solve this riddle? I most humbly beg leave to trouble your grace with these few lines. Then the exhausted Shackleton begs ships from numerous navies until he finally returns for his crew in an almost unparalleled saga of the bravery we all want to be able to show and only a handful ever manage. Then, embarrassed by his own behavior, Orlando begged their forgiveness and hurried to retrieve Adam. His eyes begged a silent plea of forgiveness, but she only shook her head. Synonyms ask for, request, plead for, appeal for, call for, sue for, solicit, seek, look for, press for rare impetrate 1.2with object Ask formally for (permission to do something) 正式请求（允许做某事） I will now beg leave to make some observations 现在请允许我说几句。 no object, with infinitive I beg to second the motion 2no object Ask for food or money as charity. 乞求施舍，索要，乞讨 a young woman was begging in the street they had to beg for food 他们只好讨饭。 Example sentencesExamples They have gone to streets in town where they beg for money to survive. You might see two parents working hard for a living, and yet their children would beg for food in the streets. What is even worse is when people actively beg for money, in that they come up to you in the street and ask you for money. Egypt must not remain poor and must not beg for food from the international community. He recounts the incident of a man who came to beg for food for his starving child. The poor were also allowed to beg for money in these buildings. Their decision to beg seems to be paying handsome dividends. Maybe she could find the train station and beg for some money to catch a train out or town. She was so low on money these days that she felt the need to beg for money. Her husband, William Good, was a simple laborer and his inadequate income forced the Goods to accept charity and to beg for goods from their neighbors. He assumed that she was a wandering beggar who had come to beg for food and shelter. Every day poor people came to her house to beg for food and every day she sent them away with nothing. They beg for money, often using bits of broken English they pick up from the occasional soldier they encounter. He had to beg for money in order to eat, but received very little. At times we are forced to go and beg for food from nearby homesteads. So the crippled beg for food but are shown little compassion. I'm going to go beg for money and we might end up with enough to rent a room to stay for tonight. A man begging cornered me and asked me for some spare change. They were poor having no stock save a cow and a few hens, and often had to beg for food around the parish. A friend told me that it was better living on the street, because there you could beg for money and food. Synonyms ask for money, solicit money, seek charity, seek alms informal sponge, cadge, scrounge, bum, touch someone for money British informal scab Scottish informal sorn on someone North American informal mooch Australian/New Zealand informal bludge 2.1with object Acquire (food or money) from someone by begging. a piece of bread which I begged from a farmer 我从一个农夫那儿讨来的一片面包。 Example sentencesExamples They slept in the open and begged food from farmers. The journey took three days; he begged food and money along the way. She begged money from parishioners going to and from St Anne's Cathedral. Synonyms take as a loan, ask for the loan of, receive as a loan, use temporarily, have temporarily 2.2 (of a dog) sit up with the front paws raised expectantly in the hope of a reward. （狗）坐着举起前脚乞求 Example sentencesExamples A laugh escaped, she looked like a small puppy begging for attention again. Mom's eyes were like a puppy's begging for a scrap from the dinner table. The smartly dressed man shooed the boy away, as if it was an annoying dog begging for a piece of meat. His eyes were glinting with pleading; he looked like a dog begging for food. Her party trick is to stand on her back legs and beg for food very much like a dog begs. My tongue stops midway to going back into my mouth, with the ice cream still on the tip, I must look like a dog begging for a bone or something. He would sit up and beg for food every few moments, at which point Kayty would take something off of her plate and hold it out for him. It took him five minutes to walk to the backyard shed, inside would be the cute little puppy Shadow, whom would lick and beg for food from Chad. Usage The original meaning of the phrase beg the question belongs to the field of logic and is a translation of Latin petitio principii, literally meaning ‘laying claim to a principle’, i.e. assuming something that ought to be proved first, as in the following sentence: by devoting such a large part of the budget for the fight against drug addiction to education, we are begging the question of its significance in the battle against drugs. To some traditionalists this is still the only correct meaning. However, over the last 100 years or so another, more general use has arisen: ‘invite an obvious question’, as in some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour. This is by far the commonest use today and is the usual one in modern standard English Phrases beg one's bread archaic Live by begging. 〈古〉以乞讨为生 Example sentencesExamples She had even to beg her bread on the streets; for who wanted to help the woman who wasted wheat? By this unlucky accident, he that had seen so much of the world for such a length of time was reduced to the most indigent state, and at length forced to beg his bread. He was a boy of nine years old when he buried first his father and then his mother, and he had no other resource than to beg his bread from door to door. Better were it for us to beg our bread and clothe ourselves in rags, than to part with Christian simplicity and frankness. Face flushing a deep red with anger, Lisette was of a mind to box Bess’ ears soundly then send her away to beg her bread as a vagrant along the roads. beg the question 1(of a fact or action) raise a point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question. （事实或行动）引发（人们考虑）尚未触及的问题；引出多数人都能想得到的问题 some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behaviour Example sentencesExamples Which begs the big question: What is the right thing? It does beg the question about whether its findings proved embarrassing. But the idea of biking around in cold weather, or bombing down a snowy mountainside, begs some obvious questions: isn't it kind of dangerous? In fact, it only begs the question of whether they have evolved at all. But that begs the question of why that deal happened now as opposed to two years ago and what we had to give up to get it. It seems that every political question ultimately begs the question, ‘how do we proceed?’ It begs the burning question - are they engagement rings? Which begs the question: do you think they were raised by bears? She obviously didn't have a clue - which begged the question about why she was even here and how she'd even got the job. But we don't really believe that, and the topic begs other questions, like: How many younger women are rocking the establishment? Which begs a question: Who, then, is tougher than an opponent? In fact, it begs the question whether preserving today's national boundaries is a worthwhile goal. They are out there being a problem well past midnight which begs the questions, do their parents know where they are and what they are doing? Saying that the consideration is what moves the transfer begs the question, really, because the question here is, what does move it? It also begs the questions as to who benefits from these matches, because Clare can have learned little about themselves from what was little more than a training exercise. These facts beg the question: Are these AIDS awareness initiatives ineffective? But this obviously begs the question: who gets control of the remote? No real surprises here but it begs the question of why such obvious flaws were never caught in advance. It has proved difficult to argue for one choice over another without simply begging the question against competing positions. While the new questions do not seem provocative, they do beg the question: What is the point of it all? 2Assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it. 未经讨论就认为某一有待证明的论点（或主张）正确；把尚无定论（或有待证明）的事当作事实来看待；想当然，主观臆断 Example sentencesExamples The problem with many of the criteria is that they either assume what they seek to prove or simply beg the question. It might be argued that it begs the question to assume that exploitation can be mutually advantageous and consensual. And an argument that begs the question clearly does not work. There are two people internal to her investigative staff that have recommended an independent counsel on the basis of what we know today, and to say she wouldn't do it, begs the question. It may be objected that this argument begs the question. The argument has been criticized for begging the question: it assumes the universe is designed in order to prove that it is the work of a designer. It seems to me that this begs the question as well as implicitly assuming a kind of universal agreement about human rights that I don't think is historically supported. Hasn't Hume just begged the question against them - not so much proved that they are wrong as simply assumed it? These arguments are indeed plausible, but beg the question. But this begs the question, for it assumes that the state and religion arose from two independent sources. This argument assumes the conclusion, and so begs the question. It therefore begs the question and doesn't prove a thing about real-life biological evolution. beg yours I beg your pardon. 〈澳／新西兰〉对不起；请原谅 Example sentencesExamples I was stunned. I beg yours? Did you say ? go begging 1(of an article) be available because unwanted by others. （物品因别人不需要）随时可用 there was a spare aircraft going begging Example sentencesExamples ‘We are a country of the last minute,’ said Cesare Vaciago, director general of the Turin organising committee, in response to reports in the last fortnight that 370,000 of the one million available tickets were still going begging. Synonyms surplus, surplus to requirements, superfluous, too many, too much, supernumerary, excessive, in excess, going begging 1.1(of an opportunity) fail to be taken. （机会）失去 the home side had themselves to blame as chances went begging Example sentencesExamples Chance after chance went begging in the second half. They missed the chance to go ahead after seven minutes when a penalty opportunity went begging. This was a wake up call for the brothers and they started to convert the opportunities that had earlier gone begging. Although they scored four tries, at least five other golden scoring opportunities went begging. He wasn't so foolish to talk about all the opportunities that went begging. Synonyms unutilized, not made use of, unemployed, unexploited, not in service, non-functioning Phrasal Verbs beg off Withdraw from an undertaking. 收回诺言，取消保证 I'd planned to take Christy to dinner, but I was in a mood, and I begged off Example sentencesExamples So if you allow me, I'll beg off of a guess on that one. Granted, I begged off being a bridesmaid, so it could be worse. His first term as mayor began in 1352, he was re-elected the following year, and then for an unprecedented third consecutive term - on that occasion he begged off, but again served in 1359/60 and 1366 / 67. Could you picture someone like Kathy Griffin begging off a celebrity show because of mosquitoes? Something about his urgency penetrated Tennyson's chord-sotted brain: after a brief confused pause, he begged off the dance and went to look for Clara by the citrus and bubblegum punch fountain. That being the case I'm betting I can legitimately beg off spending Christmas with anyone and stick to my original plan of cleaning the kitchen, watching some dvd's and going online - after a very long lie in. I had to constantly beg off invitations to the local ‘tittie bar’ from co-workers, but our section of the warehouse stocked all forms of luggage and back packs, and to this day, I am fully stocked with all forms of luggage and backpacks. Only Casper - who insisted we were moving too slow, since by this time we'd climbed only one peak in 26 hours of travel - begged off. You know, when the weather's so rotten you can beg off school or work and no one thinks you're just being a bum? Karl begs off when first invited into her home, but returns when he finds she left her gloves in the cab. You can't know what types of arguments a future case might present, but you do know the arguments presented in past cases so there is no reason to allow a nominee to beg off on answering such a question. We were going to rehearse, but Drew's begging off,’ Cash, the drummer, remarked with a smirk. One thing I know… this one I won't be begging off of when the kids want to go see it. I've spent the last three nights working until 1am and I'm rather tired of it, so I'm going to beg off tonight. She has even had to beg off a meeting in Asia to make the round trip. I finally begged off on some excuse and put down the controller. Having posted a list of ‘Perfect Albums’ a while back, I'm half tempted to just beg off. You know, and Dean begs off the question, wisely, I thought. Through a spokesman, she begged off with a claim that she was ‘on a long-planned trip with her husband and two children.’ But if you're going to use the ‘it's not my specialty’ excuse to beg off answering one question, why doesn't that stop you from making claims in all those other non-specialties? With no evidence of any of these matters, I had to beg off. People who forward too much volume or too little of interest find people begging off their lists. The Duke of Osaka has begged off from the evening activities; I understand that he was sorely traumatized that the people behind the attacks were members of his daughter's staff. Then Dailey begged off because he had just finished directing something. Mr. Thomas suggested a walk on deck after dinner, but Caroline begged off and hurried back to her cabin, leaving him to adjourn to the smoking room to mingle with the other male passengers in second class for a while before retiring to bed. Weak with laughter, I finally begged off… but only when he announced he had to go to the toilet and be funny in there. Origin Middle English: probably from Old English bedecian, of Germanic origin; related to bid². Rhymes cleg, egg, Eigg, Greg, keg, leg, Meg, peg, skeg, teg, yegg verb.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of beg in US English: beg verbbeɡbɛɡ 1reporting verb Ask (someone) earnestly or humbly for something. 恳求某人给予… with object and infinitive she begged me to say nothing to her father 她请求我对她父亲什么也别说。 no object I must beg of you not to act impulsively 请你切勿凭一时冲动行事。 with object I begged him for mercy Example sentencesExamples Michelle smiled at her other two friends, begging them to forgive him as she had. Meanwhile, farmers are begging their banks for the funds to survive. I'm begging anyone with any information to contact the police. If I have done anything to screw it up, I beg of you to push it aside and forgive me. That night Paul and John begged their father to play. I beg of you, mother, to walk me down the aisle for no other person would be suited to do so in my eyes. I pleaded for him and begged them to take me instead, but they forced me away. God please, please, please, I beg of you, make my feelings for Jalil disappear. She bows down at his feet (no Pharisee in Galilee did that!) and presents herself humbly as she begs for his help. I beg of you, do not distress yourself over this. Save me from any more embarrassment, please I beg of you - whoever is in charge of embarrassing people! I could hear her begging my father for my forgiveness, but I could also tell that she was failing as my father's voice dissipated completely. Children cried and clung to their fathers, begging them not to go. When he had left the house, he had pleaded and begged his grandmother to come with him, but she had refused. I beg of you please revive the life of this young boy, Hardy. So, I beg of you, when you see a cyclist on the road, give plenty of space. ‘Please I beg of you, think of what your doing’ Eve said, pleading for her life. If I speak to you less often and seem less cordial than before, do not be offended, I beg of you. So I beg of you, please, do not carry on this tradition. Synonyms beseech, entreat, implore, adjure, plead with, appeal to, pray to 1.1 Ask for (something) earnestly or humbly. 恳求某人给予… he begged their forgiveness 他恳求他们的宽恕。 with direct speech “Don't leave me,” she begged Example sentencesExamples There are many others, in scouting, involved and I beg their forgiveness for not mentioning them by name. The two delegates approached the supreme leader on several occasions trying to beg mercy for their fellow reformers. Just as I was about to beg their forgiveness, I saw the energy between them changing. His eyes begged a silent plea of forgiveness, but she only shook her head. Luckily he is very polite and begs forgiveness. Do I find a Master and beg of him to solve this riddle? ‘Humbly do I beg your forgiveness, Lord,’ she said clearly, bowing her head. In every other aspect of daily life there's usually something that stands out and begs the attention of the eye or the ear - typestyles fall out of favor, and hence define an era. Then the exhausted Shackleton begs ships from numerous navies until he finally returns for his crew in an almost unparalleled saga of the bravery we all want to be able to show and only a handful ever manage. Then, embarrassed by his own behavior, Orlando begged their forgiveness and hurried to retrieve Adam. I most humbly beg leave to trouble your grace with these few lines. She was right to go to the women, express her sincere regret and ask their forgiveness, but she was wrong to continue begging it once it was clear they would not give it. Synonyms ask for, request, plead for, appeal for, call for, sue for, solicit, seek, look for, press for 1.2 Ask formally for (permission to do something) 正式请求（允许做某事） I will now beg leave to make some observations 现在请允许我说几句。 no object we beg to inform you that we are instructed to wait 2no object Ask for something, typically food or money, as charity or a gift. 乞求施舍，索要，乞讨 a young woman was begging in the street they had to beg for food 他们只好讨饭。 Example sentencesExamples Her husband, William Good, was a simple laborer and his inadequate income forced the Goods to accept charity and to beg for goods from their neighbors. The poor were also allowed to beg for money in these buildings. She was so low on money these days that she felt the need to beg for money. I'm going to go beg for money and we might end up with enough to rent a room to stay for tonight. He had to beg for money in order to eat, but received very little. They beg for money, often using bits of broken English they pick up from the occasional soldier they encounter. Egypt must not remain poor and must not beg for food from the international community. Maybe she could find the train station and beg for some money to catch a train out or town. He recounts the incident of a man who came to beg for food for his starving child. So the crippled beg for food but are shown little compassion. A friend told me that it was better living on the street, because there you could beg for money and food. They have gone to streets in town where they beg for money to survive. Every day poor people came to her house to beg for food and every day she sent them away with nothing. They were poor having no stock save a cow and a few hens, and often had to beg for food around the parish. You might see two parents working hard for a living, and yet their children would beg for food in the streets. At times we are forced to go and beg for food from nearby homesteads. What is even worse is when people actively beg for money, in that they come up to you in the street and ask you for money. A man begging cornered me and asked me for some spare change. Their decision to beg seems to be paying handsome dividends. He assumed that she was a wandering beggar who had come to beg for food and shelter. Synonyms ask for money, solicit money, seek charity, seek alms 2.1with object Acquire (something) from someone by begging. 求得，乞得 a piece of bread that I begged from a farmer 我从一个农夫那儿讨来的一片面包。 Example sentencesExamples She begged money from parishioners going to and from St Anne's Cathedral. The journey took three days; he begged food and money along the way. They slept in the open and begged food from farmers. Synonyms take as a loan, ask for the loan of, receive as a loan, use temporarily, have temporarily 2.2 (of a dog) sit up with the front paws raised expectantly in the hope of a reward. （狗）坐着举起前脚乞求 Example sentencesExamples A laugh escaped, she looked like a small puppy begging for attention again. His eyes were glinting with pleading; he looked like a dog begging for food. Mom's eyes were like a puppy's begging for a scrap from the dinner table. It took him five minutes to walk to the backyard shed, inside would be the cute little puppy Shadow, whom would lick and beg for food from Chad. My tongue stops midway to going back into my mouth, with the ice cream still on the tip, I must look like a dog begging for a bone or something. Her party trick is to stand on her back legs and beg for food very much like a dog begs. He would sit up and beg for food every few moments, at which point Kayty would take something off of her plate and hold it out for him. The smartly dressed man shooed the boy away, as if it was an annoying dog begging for a piece of meat. Usage The original meaning of the phrase beg the question belongs to the field of logic and is a translation of the Latin term petitio principii, literally meaning ‘laying claim to a principle’ (that is, assuming something that ought to be proved first), as in the following sentence: by devoting such a large part of the anti-drug budget to education, we are begging the question of its significance in the battle against drugs. To some traditionalists, this is still the only correct meaning. However, over the last 100 years or so, another, more general use has arisen: ‘invite an obvious question,’ as in some definitions of mental illness beg the question of what constitutes normal behavior. This is by far the more common use today in modern standard English Phrases beg one's bread archaic Live by begging. 〈古〉以乞讨为生 Example sentencesExamples Better were it for us to beg our bread and clothe ourselves in rags, than to part with Christian simplicity and frankness. She had even to beg her bread on the streets; for who wanted to help the woman who wasted wheat? He was a boy of nine years old when he buried first his father and then his mother, and he had no other resource than to beg his bread from door to door. Face flushing a deep red with anger, Lisette was of a mind to box Bess’ ears soundly then send her away to beg her bread as a vagrant along the roads. By this unlucky accident, he that had seen so much of the world for such a length of time was reduced to the most indigent state, and at length forced to beg his bread. beg the question 1(of a fact or action) raise a question or point that has not been dealt with; invite an obvious question. （事实或行动）引发（人们考虑）尚未触及的问题；引出多数人都能想得到的问题 Example sentencesExamples But this obviously begs the question: who gets control of the remote? In fact, it begs the question whether preserving today's national boundaries is a worthwhile goal. Which begs the question: do you think they were raised by bears? Which begs a question: Who, then, is tougher than an opponent? They are out there being a problem well past midnight which begs the questions, do their parents know where they are and what they are doing? While the new questions do not seem provocative, they do beg the question: What is the point of it all? Saying that the consideration is what moves the transfer begs the question, really, because the question here is, what does move it? No real surprises here but it begs the question of why such obvious flaws were never caught in advance. These facts beg the question: Are these AIDS awareness initiatives ineffective? It seems that every political question ultimately begs the question, ‘how do we proceed?’ But we don't really believe that, and the topic begs other questions, like: How many younger women are rocking the establishment? But the idea of biking around in cold weather, or bombing down a snowy mountainside, begs some obvious questions: isn't it kind of dangerous? It begs the burning question - are they engagement rings? Which begs the big question: What is the right thing? It does beg the question about whether its findings proved embarrassing. In fact, it only begs the question of whether they have evolved at all. It also begs the questions as to who benefits from these matches, because Clare can have learned little about themselves from what was little more than a training exercise. She obviously didn't have a clue - which begged the question about why she was even here and how she'd even got the job. It has proved difficult to argue for one choice over another without simply begging the question against competing positions. But that begs the question of why that deal happened now as opposed to two years ago and what we had to give up to get it. 2Assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it. 未经讨论就认为某一有待证明的论点（或主张）正确；把尚无定论（或有待证明）的事当作事实来看待；想当然，主观臆断 Example sentencesExamples But this begs the question, for it assumes that the state and religion arose from two independent sources. Hasn't Hume just begged the question against them - not so much proved that they are wrong as simply assumed it? There are two people internal to her investigative staff that have recommended an independent counsel on the basis of what we know today, and to say she wouldn't do it, begs the question. It therefore begs the question and doesn't prove a thing about real-life biological evolution. It might be argued that it begs the question to assume that exploitation can be mutually advantageous and consensual. And an argument that begs the question clearly does not work. The argument has been criticized for begging the question: it assumes the universe is designed in order to prove that it is the work of a designer. The problem with many of the criteria is that they either assume what they seek to prove or simply beg the question. This argument assumes the conclusion, and so begs the question. It seems to me that this begs the question as well as implicitly assuming a kind of universal agreement about human rights that I don't think is historically supported. These arguments are indeed plausible, but beg the question. It may be objected that this argument begs the question. 3Avoid the question; evade the issue. Example sentencesExamples That, with due respect, assumes a huge link between the two, which rather begs the question. This is especially true of objection that the ontological argument begs the question. But the hypothetical scenario begs the question. First, Fetter maintained that those examples that assumed a rate of productivity begged the question and failed to establish technical productivity as a cause of interest. But in any case, the argument fails, since it clearly begs the question at last step. go begging 1(of an article) be available for use because unwanted by others. （物品因别人不需要）随时可用 half the apartments in New York go begging in the summer Example sentencesExamples ‘We are a country of the last minute,’ said Cesare Vaciago, director general of the Turin organising committee, in response to reports in the last fortnight that 370,000 of the one million available tickets were still going begging. Synonyms surplus, surplus to requirements, superfluous, too many, too much, supernumerary, excessive, in excess, going begging 1.1(of an opportunity) not be taken. （机会）失去 we let so many good chances go begging Example sentencesExamples They missed the chance to go ahead after seven minutes when a penalty opportunity went begging. Although they scored four tries, at least five other golden scoring opportunities went begging. Chance after chance went begging in the second half. This was a wake up call for the brothers and they started to convert the opportunities that had earlier gone begging. He wasn't so foolish to talk about all the opportunities that went begging. Synonyms unutilized, not made use of, unemployed, unexploited, not in service, non-functioning beg, borrow, or steal Do whatever may be necessary to acquire something greatly desired. I'm gonna get the money to buy Casey's ring, even if I have to beg, borrow, or steal Example sentencesExamples It was issued to the Union troops starting with breakfast, and it was consumed in heroic quantities by every soldier who could beg, borrow, or steal a keg. Tickets won't be easy to come by but whether you have to beg, borrow, or steal, you don't want to miss these two games. As the pool of accounting students shrinks, employers scramble to beg, borrow, or steal entry-level finance staffers. Perhaps Americans are more willing to beg, borrow, or steal ideas that work than Europeans are. The women and seniors should beg, borrow, or steal in order to incorporate some of those ideas. beg off Request to be excused from a question or obligation. asked to name her favorites from her films, Hepburn begs off Phrasal Verbs beg off Request to be excused from a question or obligation. asked to name her favorites from her films, Hepburn begs off Origin Middle English: probably from Old English bedecian, of Germanic origin; related to bid. verb.1 phr. phr.v.
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