be to

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Used to express an official plan, arrangement, or scheduled event.
    — The CEO is to announce the new company strategy tomorrow.
  2. Used in the past tense to indicate that something was supposed to happen or was destined to happen.
    — Strange things were to happen all over the country.
  3. Used after if to introduce a condition that must be met in order for something to happen or succeed.
    — If we are to make it, we'd better get a taxi.
  4. Used to give commands, instructions, or to state rules. In negative form, it expresses prohibition.
    — You are to hand in your essay by Friday.
  5. Used to ask or state what someone should do.
    — What is he to do in such a difficult situation?
  6. Used to ask how something is possible or achievable
    — How am I to reach the top shelf without a ladder?
  7. Used after if or in inversion to describe hypothetical or imagined scenarios.
    — If you were to find a wallet on the street, would you take it?
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