bestir

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈstɜː/    美 /bɪˈstɝ/|/biˈstɝ/|/bəˈstɝ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor. transitive
    — Notwithstanding all the various temptations to bad temper, pride, greediness, adultery and so forth, the enemy really has but one temptation, and that is, to bestir the saints.
  2. To make active; to rouse oneself. reflexive
    — Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.

词形变化

bestirs present,singular,third-person bestirring participle,present bestirred participle,past bestirred past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)twr̥H-yé-ti?
Proto-Germanic *sturjaną
Proto-West Germanic *sturjan
Old English styrian
Old English bestyrian
Middle English bestyrien
English bestir
From Middle English bestyrien, bestirien, from Old English bestyrian (“to heap up, pile up”), equivalent to be- + stir.
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