| 词汇 | beholden |
| 释义 | beholden adjective[ after verb ] formaluk /bɪˈhəʊl.dən/ us /bɪˈhoʊl.dən/ feeling you have a duty to someone because they have done something for you: 受惠的;感激的;欠人情的 She wanted to be independent and beholden to no one.她想独立，不想依赖任何人。 Relieved and thankful all's well that ends wellidiom appreciate appreciative appreciative of something appreciatively bless bless you!idiom count gratitude journal I owe you (one)idiom in acknowledgment of something in debt to someone/something indebtedness mind release thank God, goodness, heaven(s), etc.idiom thank your lucky starsidiom thankful thankfully thankfulness beholden | American Dictionarybeholden adjective us/bɪˈhoʊl·dən/ feeling you have a duty to someone who has done something for you: They do not benefit from state subsidies and therefore are not beholden to the government. Examples of beholdenbeholden Once we behold and are beholden to the painting, we cannot escape its call, a call that is as profoundly moral as it is aesthetic. Another politician more beholden to abstract principles might have attempted to move public opinion in the direction of a more migrant-friendly stance. The correct balance between being beholden to local interests and having local knowledge provides an important practical justification for territorial constituencies. 116. In his view, nationality was not pre-determined, and states, correlatively, were not beholden to singularized, essentialized notions of nation. This view sees popular culture as semiautonomous: dependent on a prior structure, but not absolutely beholden to it. Their electoral success meant that they were not beholden to the party for their seats. It's hard to teach subversive farming in regular academic curricula, which is mostly beholden to big industrial agribusiness interests anyway. They have little reason to feel grateful or beholden to their regimes. So, is a parameter that captures how beholden the candidates are to their parties. Nevertheless, however sympathetic these writers may have been, they remained beholden to a colonial outlook and worldview. The elected representative would then not be beholden to any particular interest, but rather, be able to pursue the public interest free from partisan factionalism. Indeed, it is difficult to envision how progressive politics will spread far beyond the portion of the intelligentsia not directly beholden to corporate interests. If we are to ask why a performance may or may not be boring, however, we are beholden to explore and examine the processes going on within it. The respondents wished to avoid 'being beholden to people' and many adopted ways to make some recompense, such as offering petrol money and making gifts to people who provided transport. Though some advisory committees were established to consult with civil servants at various levels and on various issues, local administrators were beholden only to their superiors. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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