| 单词 | being |
| 释义 | being (biːɪŋ ) Word forms: beings 1. A1 Being is the present participle of be1. 2. link verb Being is used in non-finite clauses where you are giving the reason for something. It being a Sunday, the old men had the day off. [VERB noun] Little boys, being what they are, might decide to play on it. [VERB noun] Of course, being young, I did not worry. [VERB adjective] 3. countable noun You can refer to any real or imaginary creature as a being. Every living being is subject to decay ...beings from outer space. Synonyms: individual, thing, body [informal], animal 4. See also human being 5. uncountable noun Being is existence. Something that is in being or comes into being exists or starts to exist. Abraham Maslow described psychology as 'the science of being'. The Kingdom of Italy formally came into being on 17 March 1861. ...the complex process by which the novel is brought into being. Synonyms: life, living, reality, animation 6. being as phrase You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying. [mainly British, informal, spoken] I used to go everywhere with my mother being as I was the youngest. 7. See also well-being 8. other things being equal phrase If you say 'other things being equal' or 'all things being equal' when talking about a possible situation, you mean if nothing unexpected happens or if there are no other factors which affect the situation. Other things being equal, most tenants would prefer single to shared rooms. All things being equal, should it matter who earns most money? 9. for the time being phrase If something is the case or will happen for the time being, it is the case or will happen now, but only until something else becomes possible or happens. For the time being, however, immunotherapy is still in its experimental stages. The situation is calm for the time being. Synonyms: for now, meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime Collocations: complex being Stadium:mk holds 22,000 but this will rise thanks to cash from a new 56million shopping complex being built on the site. The Sun Plus they'll have the luxury of their own roof terrace, and a new sports and leisure complex being built below. Times, Sunday Times They also raise concerns about the complex being restricted to use by supporters' club members and said the development has insufficient parking. Times, Sunday Times Intuitively recognising our shared characteristics and admitting they are similar to many of our own has helped me to understand these complex beings. Times, Sunday Times We're such complex beings that genes are just part of the story. Times, Sunday Times Be what you are conscious being and don't stray away from yourself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The three races of conscious beings which inhabit the planet live together in perfect harmony. Times, Sunday Times Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This being explains that all conscious beings are facets of much greater beings, which exist outside the traditional model of three dimensions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While worship of an idol represents the worship and recognition of supreme through inanimate materials, worship of a human represents veneration and recognition of the same supreme in conscious beings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Merely allowing them the dignity of being heard releases pressure. Christianity Today She couldn't stand squeamish types and believed if we cull badgers we should at least offer them the dignity of being eaten for their peril. The Sun It gave me the dignity of being a human being who could do something, and we all need purpose. Times, Sunday Times It's important they are given the dignity of being told that this terrible thing should never have happened to them. The Sun One suggested that only a divine being could achieve such a feat. Times, Sunday Times He was a little angel really, a very divine being. Times, Sunday Times However, the path leading from nature to rediscovering a divine being was uncertain. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While some philosophers drifted toward atheism, others worked within the new philosophy to reconstitute the concept of a divine being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As spirits who were once human themselves, they are seen as being better able to understand human needs than would a divine being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sublime bliss suffuses my entire being, pulsing light and love. Times,Sunday Times It was her entire being, and the way she carried herself, that captivated me. Times, Sunday Times Having sold her fashion business, she devoted her entire being to the project. Times, Sunday Times When you have a captain who throws his entire being into the fray there are no options but to play your heart out. Times, Sunday Times Their ability to breathe fire rivals that of the eldest red dragons, and they will pour their entire being into a battle against evil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He thought he was going to be having a nice conversation with an extraterrestrial being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When an alien aircraft obliterates major cities around the world, survivors devise a plan to fight back against the extraterrestrial beings. The Sun These seven types are the intelligent extraterrestrial beings allowed to sit on a high council. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, the chirality of molecules used by terrestrial biota may differ from those used by extraterrestrial beings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Instead, she was described as an immortal being, who could transform herself into a trunk of eaglewood at will. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He can not resurrect another virtually immortal being powered by cosmic life force like himself or anyone who has died past a certain time point. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She was an immortal being with an uncanny regeneration ability. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Immortal beings and species abound in fiction, especially fantasy fiction, and the meaning of immortal tends to vary. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Do nt create immortal beings who are like yourself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet he still broods over what he sees as the injustice of one individual being held responsible by the regulator for decisions made by an entire board. Times, Sunday Times It depends on the individual being asked the question. Times, Sunday Times Thousands of words flow by without a single individual being mentioned. Times, Sunday Times He elaborated by saying that each individual being can have only one perfection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two juveniles are both relatively small, with the smaller individual being 1.5m ft long, and the larger having a length of 2.6m ft. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He knew that she looked down upon him as an inferior being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The guards told us that we were not humans, we were low and inferior beings. Times, Sunday Times It was a given that people believed us to be inferior beings, barely borderline human. Times, Sunday Times Monumental arrogance and the belief in their divine right to win, that nothing should stand in their way - certainly not the opposition who are de facto, objectively, inferior beings. Times, Sunday Times Everybody you know has a fuel tank, and it's in their inner being, in their spirit. Christianity Today I want him to be gauche, unsophisticated and uncool, but have a beautiful inner being. Times, Sunday Times We just have to tap into our inner being and find it and when we do, we will derive immense pleasure from it. ST However, for one to be able to do this one must be strengthened in the inner being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That brief experience of soaring up with the winds of a great idea left imprints on his inner being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To me, that’s a much less threatening notion than creating an artificially intelligent being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Would some other self-aware, highly intelligent being have still appeared? Times, Sunday Times He claims to be the most intelligent being in at least three galaxies, arguably five. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That aside, the majority of supremely intelligent beings on the planet seem to agree that something did precede the big bang. Times, Sunday Times We are now preparing to hand the gift of knowing on to new forms of intelligent beings. Times, Sunday Times But she did talk about feeling an increased spirituality and the presence of an invisible being during her grief. Times, Sunday Times On the third time, the flag and flag-bearer would be carried off by an invisible being, never to be seen again. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These invisible beings inhabit a parallel world and sometimes reside in particular places or are associated with particular natural phenomena. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Dances were organized around the smoky fire to symbolically ward off the invisible beings of evil, to have an abundant harvest and good hunting that year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For you to take someone's life away from them, you have to consider them a lesser being. Times, Sunday Times Do you tell him it would be better for morale if a lesser being gets his place? Times, Sunday Times Unmistakably, you are an ever so slightly lesser being; needy, diminished. Times, Sunday Times They are exceptionally resilient and can survive a score of blows that would fell a lesser being. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Though he was unfailingly polite in public to his staff, lesser beings held little interest for him. Times, Sunday Times What could a being entirely rational speak of with another entirely rational being? The Times Literary Supplement A rational being has to accept that many phenomena in the universe are mysteries. Times, Sunday Times This helps show that no rational being seeks to harm himself for its own sake. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We are rational beings at the same time as being intuitive beings. Times, Sunday Times For as a rational being he necessarily wills that all his faculties should be developed, inasmuch as they are given him for all sorts of possible purposes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Same as every other sentient being on the planet. The Sun Meat isn't the same as beans or flour or sugar - there's a sentient being involved. Times, Sunday Times What makes a sentient being - the ability to feel emotions, to have thoughts, or to experience pain or pleasure? Times, Sunday Times You are well within the capabilities of the car and you are a sentient being. Times, Sunday Times After 400 pages of dodgy dialogue, screaming stereotypes, telenovela melodrama and transparent revisionist autobiography, any sentient being would be awestruck. Times, Sunday Times To secure a successful hunt or merely to revere a spiritual being ... artists were engraving within its hidden recesses. Times, Sunday Times Scholars have discussed whether idol worshipers made a distinction between a spiritual being that existed independently of idols and the physical idols themselves. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These unique features represent the particular talent or power of the spiritual being that they embody. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It made you spiritual being around him. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He believes there needs to be a sea-change in training for doctors; moving away from a 'biochemistry' approach to seeing people as holistic, spiritual beings. Times, Sunday Times People here adore him, all waving their arms at his elevated stage as though he's a superior being. Times, Sunday Times The tables are turned: for a while, you really are a superior being. Times, Sunday Times And as such he considers himself to be a superior being in all respects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The player begins at the amoeba level and slowly works their way to the superior being level. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They live in a world where it seems they feel they are superior beings. Times, Sunday Times There are strange noises, objects are moving around the place, you feel the presence of a supernatural being. The Sun It was, put simply, as though some giant, supernatural being were blowing the snow off the mountains. Times, Sunday Times It's a small step from that to imagining a disembodied self, or soul, or all-powerful supernatural being. Times, Sunday Times Only a supernatural being, unconcerned with natural selection, could have designed it. Times, Sunday Times Thunderbird, a benevolent supernatural being, saw from its home high in the mountains that the people were starving. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 生物 Japanese: 生命体 |
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