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单词 bear
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1. verb uses2. noun uses
bear
(bʳ )
verb uses
Word forms: bears , bearing , bore , borne
1. verb
If you bear something somewhere, you carry it there or take it there. [literary]
They bore the oblong hardwood box into the kitchen and put it on the table. [VERB noun adverb/preposition]
-bearing combining form
...food-bearing lorries.
2. verb
If you bear something such as a weapon, you hold it or carry it with you. [formal]
...the constitutional right to bear arms. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: hold, carry, pack  
-bearing combining form
...rifle-bearing soldiers.
...hundreds of flag-bearing marchers.
3. verb
If one thing bears the weight of something else, it supports the weight of that thing.
The ice was not thick enough to bear the weight of marching men. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: support, carry, shoulder, sustain  
-bearing combining form
...the load-bearing joints of the body.
4. verb
If something bears a particular mark or characteristic, it has that mark or characteristic.
The houses bear the marks of bullet holes. [VERB noun]
...notepaper bearing the Presidential seal. [VERB noun]
...a corporation he owned that bore his name. [VERB noun]
The room bore all the signs of a violent struggle. [VERB noun]
5. verb B2
If you bear an unpleasant experience, you accept it because you are unable to do anything about it.
They will have to bear the misery of living in constant fear of war. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: suffer, feel, experience, go through  
6. verb [with neg] B2
If you can't bear someone or something, you dislike them very much.
I can't bear people who make judgements and label me. [VERB noun/verb-ing]
I can't bear having to think what I'm going to say. [VERB noun/-ing]
He can't bear to talk about it, even to me. [VERB to-infinitive]
Synonyms: bring yourself to, allow, accept, permit  
7. verb
If someone bears the cost of something, they pay for it.
Patients should not have to bear the costs of their own treatment. [VERB noun]
8. verb
If you bear the responsibility for something, you accept responsibility for it.
After all, he bore no responsibility for what had happened the day before. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: take on, support, carry, accept  
9. verb
If one thing bears no resemblance or no relationship to another thing, they are not at all similar.
Their daily menus bore no resemblance whatsoever to what they were actually fed. [VERB noun]
For many software packages, the price bears little relation to cost. [VERB noun]
10. verb
When a plant or tree bears flowers, fruit, or leaves, it produces them.
As the plants grow and start to bear fruit they will need a lot of water. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: produce, give, provide, develop  
-bearing combining form
...a strong, fruit-bearing apple tree.
11. verb
If something such as a bank account or an investment bears interest, interest is paid on it. [business]
The eight-year bond will bear annual interest of 10.5%. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: earn, make, get, receive  
-bearing combining form
...interest-bearing current accounts.
12. verb
When a woman bears a child, she gives birth to him or her. [old-fashioned]
Emma bore a son called Karl. [VERB noun]
She bore him a daughter, Suzanna. [VERB noun noun]
Synonyms: give birth to, produce, deliver, breed  
13. verb
If you bear someone a feeling such as love or hate, you feel that emotion towards them. [literary]
She bore him no ill will. [VERB noun noun]
I have lived with him on the best terms and bear him friendship. [VERB noun noun]
Synonyms: exhibit, hold, maintain, entertain  
14. verb
If you bear yourself in a particular way, you move or behave in that way. [literary]
There was elegance and simple dignity in the way he bore himself. [V pron-refl adv/prep]
Synonyms: conduct, carry, move, deport  
15. verb
If you bear left or bear right when you are driving or walking along, you turn and continue in that direction.
Go left onto the A107 and bear left into Seven Sisters Road. [VERB adverb]
Synonyms: turn, tack, veer, swerve  
16.  See also bore, borne
17. to bring something to bear phrase
If you bring something to bear on a situation, you use it to deal with that situation.
British scientists have brought computer science to bear on this problem.
18. bring pressure to bear on phrase
If you bring pressure or influence to bear on someone, you use it to try and persuade them to do something.
His companions brought pressure to bear on him, urging him to stop wasting money.
19. to bear the brunt of phrase
To bear the brunt or take the brunt of something unpleasant means to suffer the main part or force of it.
Young people are bearing the brunt of unemployment.
A child's head tends to take the brunt of any fall.
20. to bear comparison phrase
If someone or something stands or bears comparison with another person or thing, they are as good, or almost as good. [formal]
His famous hymn stands comparison with the best of medieval verse.
21. to bear fruit phrase
If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
Eleanor's work among the women will, I trust, bear fruit.
He was naturally disappointed when the talks failed to bear fruit.
22. to grin and bear it phrase
If you grin and bear it, you accept a difficult or unpleasant situation without complaining because you know there is nothing you can do to make things better.
They cannot stand the sight of each other, but they will just have to grin and bear it.
23. to bear in mind phrase B2
If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
Bear in mind that petrol stations are scarce in the more remote areas.
I should not be surprised about some of her comments, bearing in mind the party she belongs to.
24. to bear witness to phrase
If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened. [formal]
Many of these poems bear witness to his years spent in India and China.
Many veterans believe it is their job to bear witness to the horrors of war.
Phrasal verbs:
bear down
1. phrasal verb
If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar. [VERB PARTICLE + on]
[Also VERB PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
To bear down on something means to push or press downwards with steady pressure.
The roof support structure had collapsed and the entire weight was bearing down on the ceiling. [VERB PARTICLE + on]
[Also VERB PARTICLE]
bear out
phrasal verb
If someone or something bears a person out or bears out what that person is saying, they support what that person is saying.
Recent studies have borne out claims that perfumes can cause psychological changes. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
bear up
phrasal verb
If you bear up when experiencing problems, you remain cheerful and show courage in spite of them.
How's Mary bearing up? [VERB PARTICLE]
She was frightened that she would be unable to bear up under the pain of childbirth. [V P under n]
bear with
phrasal verb B2
If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
If you'll bear with me, Frank, just let me try to explain. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
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bear
(bʳ )
noun uses
Word forms: bears
1. countable noun A2
A bear is a large, strong wild animal with thick fur and sharp claws.
2.  See also polar bear, teddy bear
3. countable noun [usually plural]
On the stock market, bears are people who sell shares in expectation of a drop in price, in order to make a profit by buying them back again after a short time. Compare bull. [business]
Idioms:
grin and bear it
to have to accept a difficult situation because there is nothing that you can do about it
Severe abdominal pain should always be checked. Don't just grin and bear it.
bear fruit
to produce good results
People see material conditions getting worse. They don't see the economic reforms championed by the President as bearing fruit.
a cross to bear
a responsibility or an unpleasant situation which you must live with, because you cannot change it
`My children are much cleverer than me, it is a cross I have to bear,' he quips at one point in the interview.
bear the brunt of something
to suffer most as a result of a problem or difficult situation
In 37 years with British Rail, I saw how station staff always bore the brunt of public anger over fare rises.
loaded for bear [US]
ready and eager to do something
We could notify the mainland police, and they could go charging in there with guns and bullhorns, loaded for bear.
be like a bear with a sore head [mainly British]
to behave in a very bad-tempered and angry way
Ever since we arrived here, you've been like a bear with a sore head.
Collocations:
bear a flag
It was told across two stages, beneath a giant arch bearing the flags of the nations who took part.
The Sun
They then had to collect a flag bearing the face of their opposite number and plant it in a holder on the opposite side of the lake.
The Sun
They'd come with flags bearing my name.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1919, he helped start the tradition in which flags bearing gold stars are attached to the goals prior to the season opener.
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The flag bears a red cross with four horizontal blue bars.
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bear a label
For example, leather shoes will bear a label identifying the animal from which the leather was taken.
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A wholesale package of processed meat will bear a label that has a government inspection legend.
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If one drives both with a car and a caravan/trailer, both must bear the label.
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It arrived bearing the label 'yellow artist paint dust'.
Times, Sunday Times
The back of the cartridge bears a label with instructions on handling.
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bear a logo
The first cake to bear this logo was a limited production of the 8653 cake.
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Some of the photos from this time bear the logo of both photographers, while others show individual logos.
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We are proud to throw our weight behind her crusade - and urge readers to send off for badges we have had made bearing the logo.
The Sun
The website now bears a logo very similar, if not identical, to that of the original search engine.
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bear a mark
Any swans that didn’t bear a mark were automatically the property of the crown.
Smithsonian Mag
Not all are as brief as those above but all bear the mark of her acute wisdom and eccentric wit.
Times, Sunday Times
Both must instead bear the mark of the cheat.
Times, Sunday Times
For you will also bear the mark.
Times, Sunday Times
Even diminutive woodcuts, be they portraits or landscapes, bear the mark of his spirited style.
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bear a name
It's the first album to bear his name and represents a massive moment in the stellar career of its creator.
The Sun
However, banking stocks limped to the holiday that bear their name.
Times, Sunday Times
But what respect he commanded - no wonder two such good plants bear his name.
Times, Sunday Times
Her mark continues throughout her home region today, with streets, schools, and institutions that bear her name.
Christianity Today
He did not ask for any of these things to bear his name; although some did, despite him.
Times, Sunday Times
bear a plaque
The award takes the form of a wooden aircraft propellor to which plaques bearing the name of each honoree are mounted.
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The concrete element to the left bears a plaque with the names of the fallen and a dedication.
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A bench bearing a plaque with the poem engraved on it was transferred to a bus shelter in the village.
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On the sides are bronze plaques bearing the names of the fallen.
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One unusual line of goods was plaques bearing the coats of arms of extinct families.
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bear a relationship
They still bear some relationship to these earlier compositions.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
The cost of car insurance bears increasingly little relationship to the real world.
The Sun (2012)
And it also bears no relationship to reality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
bear a scar
The 20 missing out bear the scar for months.
Times,Sunday Times
This battered oval tin box, with its webbing strap, bore the scars of decades of walks and bicycle rides.
Times, Sunday Times
Does he still 'bear the scars', as it were?
Times, Sunday Times
She still bears the scars of her ordeal.
Times, Sunday Times
But one glass cupboard in the far corner of the lounge still bears the scars of some rare, loose control to this day.
The Sun
bear a share of
Do we all bear a share of the blame?
Times, Sunday Times
By not agreeing a fee in advance, you both bear a share of the blame - but you more than her.
Times, Sunday Times
They are filled with resentment because others do not bear their share of the general burden.
Times, Sunday Times
Some well-paid people bear their share of responsibility for the fiscal hole we are in, but they are helping to dig us out of it.
Times, Sunday Times
They may feel decidedly short-changed at being excluded from the windfalls while also being obliged to bear a share of the costs of flotation.
Times, Sunday Times
bear a sign
This scheme bears the signs of what was originally a bright idea being whittled down by the inevitable committees.
Times, Sunday Times
In contrast to those who covet precious materials, the machinist loves objects that bear the signs of heavy use.
Times, Sunday Times
In fact my whole house bears the signs of someone who doesn't spend much time there.
Times, Sunday Times
Two are still in use, while the third bears a sign showing its later conversion to a bakery.
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Several pieces of such coins, bearing his signs, are preserved.
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bear a signature
The bill must bear the signature of the member introducing it to verify that the member actually intended to introduce the bill.
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He made several other dedicatory works, all of which bear his signature and their corresponding dates.
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However, having let the manifesto bear his signature, he had to bear the full responsibility for its consequences.
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Over 120 vases bear his signature, indicating that they were made by him or in his workshop.
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Only two works from this period bear a signature and a date, both from 1552.
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bear a stamp
Generations of novelists bear the stamp of his imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
After all, the products we clutch in our hands and stuff in our ears bear the stamp of his workshop.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet they also bear the stamp of a personal and compelling vision.
The Times Literary Supplement
In countries where excise stamps are required, all cigarettes and alcohol produced legally will bear a stamp.
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The cards must carry the name and quality of the artist, and bear the stamp of his atelier.
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bear den
The following year, the zoo added two cinnamon bears and created an iron bear den.
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A foot bridge, a feline house, and a new bear den were constructed.
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They may also den in abandoned brown bear dens.
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bear flowers
In summer nettles bear flowers, but these are not much noticed.
Times, Sunday Times
The leaves of the plants that bear flowers are long and pointed, and they lack the triangular lobes that we normally associate with our idea of typical ivy leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
Even the small plants bear flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
During the summer, these stems bear flowers arranged in a spiral.
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Many plants bear flowers that favour certain types of pollinator over all others.
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bear pain
One finding was their increased ability to bear pain.
Times, Sunday Times
Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes learning to bear pain skillfully.
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Who has not been inspired and enriched by real-life stories of people courageously and patiently bearing pain and suffering, faithful to a destiny that eludes our capacity to fathom it?
Christianity Today
bear scrutiny
Inevitably, though, he must also bear scrutiny and responsibility as the rebuilding of an image proceeds.
Times, Sunday Times
In my experience people in senior positions who fight against such clarity have reasons for doing so that often do not bear scrutiny.
Times,Sunday Times
Do players of legend bear scrutiny or were their feats just myths?
Times, Sunday Times
Does your outbox bear scrutiny?
Times, Sunday Times
He was of the conviction that the term liquid crystal did not bear scrutiny.
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bear similarity
Description in all three books bear similarity, thus they seem to have the same historical origins.
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A second goal soon followed, bearing similarities to the first.
Times, Sunday Times
Her life threafter bears similarities to those of the persecuted today.
Times, Sunday Times
I think that bears similarities.
The Sun
The paratyphoid fever bears similarities with typhoid fever, and the two are referred to by the common name enteric fever.
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bear territory
Bear territory occurs when the market falls 20 per cent below its peak over the course of at least two months.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's not an obvious time to be taking on the distraction or risk of drilling in bear territory.
Times, Sunday Times
The market isn't quite in bear territory yet.
Houston Chronicle
I was travelling on my own, so nothing was stopping me from heading further west in my hire car, leaving bear territory behind.
Times, Sunday Times
Polar bears rarely enter conflict with other predators, though recent brown bear encroachments into polar bear territories have led to antagonistic encounters.
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bear testimony to
The bookshelves in his studio bear testimony to his curiosity.
Times, Sunday Times
Together they bear testimony to a restless continuing and still unfinished quest.
Times, Sunday Times
The remains of the rocket and ruined masonry still bear testimony to the horror.
Times, Sunday Times
Six major championships bear testimony to his success.
Times, Sunday Times
In his clear, meticulous hand, written in blue ink, the dates of his transfers from prison to prison - eight in all - bear testimony to his long misfortune.
Times, Sunday Times
bear the blame
But he will always bear the blame.
Times, Sunday Times
Conscientious investigators do not belittle complainants nor suggest that they bear the blame for crimes committed against them.
Times, Sunday Times
If you lend someone your car, knowing that the brakes are faulty, you bear some blame if he or she has an accident.
Times, Sunday Times
All the actors involved bear some blame.
Times, Sunday Times
In most cases, each party will bear some blame, even if it's 99 per cent the fault of one person and only 1 per cent the fault of the other.
Times, Sunday Times
bear the burden
The seats are twice the size of regular ones and can bear the burden of someone weighing up to 39st.
Times, Sunday Times
She has been celebrated for perfection over the past 33 years, yet seems to bear the burden lightly.
Times, Sunday Times
To keep the police operation secret, the soldiers had to bear the burden of fear in silence - telling no-one including close comrades.
The Sun
Shareholders rather than customers will bear the burden of the fine, the organisation said.
Times, Sunday Times
You're strong, but you've had to bear the burden of certain obligations on your own for far too long.
Times, Sunday Times
bear the consequence
Ultimately the appeal would determine which of the innocent parties would bear the consequences.
Times, Sunday Times
If ministers never have to bear the consequences of the policies they implement, how are they ever going to know whether they are reasonable?
Times, Sunday Times
Live your own life, make your own decisions and bear the consequences.
Times, Sunday Times
I thought that readers would sympathise with such witnesses, who were not consulted but had to bear the consequences.
Times, Sunday Times
Let them bear the consequences of their actions.
Christianity Today
bear the cost
Their vast cost was borne by the noblemen given the privilege of hosting her.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The yellow book has seen taxpayers, rather than companies, bear the cost of redundancies as shrinking budgets have shut defence factories across the country.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
To maintain our tie has taken a certain amount of determination and willingness to bear the cost.
Christianity Today (2000)
bear the imprint of
The new traditions that are emerging bear the imprint of venality.
ST
Others bear the imprint of our culture that recoils from commitment to anything.
Christianity Today
Printed political election material must bear an imprint declaring its origin, and campaigners want to extend that online.
Times, Sunday Times
Roughly half the buildings bear the imprint of the late 16th century.
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This week's reshuffle certainly bore his imprint.
Times, Sunday Times
bear the thought of
I just couldn't bear the thought of any friends finding out.
The Sun
I can't bear the thought of losing her too.
The Sun
I am naturally energetic, and can't bear the thought of wasting the day in bed.
Times, Sunday Times
I cannot carry on the way we are but cannot bear the thought of breaking up either.
The Sun
He can't bear the thought of me with someone else.
The Sun
bear the trace of
These thick leaves, typically produced from stretched animal skins, then bore the traces of their former contents, creating a palimpsest: a manuscript with multiple sets of overlaid text.
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And his artworks still bear the traces of that time in the shadows.
The Times Literary Supplement
The hotel still bears the traces of past glory.
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The text bears some traces of remodeling and linguistic simplifications, and its final form belongs to the 15th century.
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As everything a person eats bears the trace of the soil of where it was grown or reared, soil samples were compared to places around the world.
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bear weight
It is the key to bearing weight.
The Sun (2009)
The slender lattice was too frail to bear the weight of a nuclear device' and Neil assumed that it was an old radio mast.
Ballard, J. G. RUSHING TO PARADISE
These lithe, slim beasts bear the weight of an astonishing amount of history, belief and superstition.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
dancing bear
Like a dancing bear, it's not the moves it makes that get your attention, but the fact it's making them at all.
Times, Sunday Times
He was the ringmaster who freed the puppets from their magic suitcase and cued in a deafening audience scream (rehearsed) at the entry of the dancing bear.
Times, Sunday Times
The dancing bear scares the highwaymen away, and everyone arrives at the fair.
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It's in the same boat as dancing bears.
Times,Sunday Times
In 1990, 3,000 people were invited to a grand launch revue featuring ballerinas, bullfighters and dancing bears.
Times, Sunday Times
stuffed bear
Inside stuffed bear and boar were reminders that anything goes in the mountains, although hunting now requires a government licence.
Times, Sunday Times
The library contains, among its high walls of books, a sofa, a shrouded piano and the head of a stuffed bear.
The Times Literary Supplement
When you entered the stairs at 206, you were met by an enormous stuffed bear standing watching you.
Times, Sunday Times
A giant stuffed bear with illuminated eyes proves even more startling than it appears.
Times, Sunday Times
One visitor recalls a stuffed bear at the entrance to a room bearing a tray of caviar.
Times, Sunday Times
wild bear
They are fighters and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs.
Christianity Today
Other organizations exist to further wild bear education and conservation.
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He wakes to see a maiden being chased by a wild bear and rescues her.
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In another incident, a wild bear came by when he was in deep meditation.
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Hog deer and wild bear occur particularly in the central inundation belt.
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Translations:
Chinese: , 负担
Japanese: クマ 動物, 支える 支持
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