vt. 建立；建筑
vi. 建筑；建造
n. 构造；体形；体格
英 [bɪld] 美 [bɪld]
权威例句
- If you build more plastics into cars, the car lasts longer.
如果汽车采用更多塑料元件，寿命会更长一些。
来自柯林斯例句 - She dusted herself down and left to build her own career.
她重振旗鼓去开创自己的事业了。
来自柯林斯例句 - Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically.
约翰逊医生和我一直试图增强他的体质。
来自柯林斯例句 - The money to build the power station ought to have been sufficient.
建设电站的资金本该足够了。
来自柯林斯例句 - How much delay should we build into the plan?
我们应该为这个计划预留多少富余的时间？
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
build 建造
来自PIE *bheue, 存在，生长，居住。词源同booth, bothy.
英文词源
build
**build: **[OE] In common with a wide range of other English words, including bower, booth, and the – _bour _of neighbour, _build _comes ultimately from the Germanic base *bū- ‘dwell’. A derivative of this, Germanic *buthlam, passed into Old English as bold, which meant ‘house’; the verb formed from this, byldan, thus originally meant ‘construct a house’, and only gradually broadened out in meaning to encompass any sort of structure.
=> boor, booth, bower, build, byre, neighbour
build (v.)
late Old English byldan "construct a house," verb form of bold "house," from Proto-Germanic *buthlam (cognates: Old Saxon bodl, Old Frisian bodel "building, house"), from PIE *bhu- "to dwell," from root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow" (see be). Rare in Old English; in Middle English it won out over more common Old English timbran (see timber). Modern spelling is unexplained. Figurative use from mid-15c. Of physical things other than buildings from late 16c. Related: Builded (archaic); built; building.
In the United States, this verb is used with much more latitude than in England. There, as Fennimore Cooper puts it, everything is BUILT. The priest BUILDS up a flock; the speculator a fortune; the lawyer a reputation; the landlord a town; and the tailor, as in England, BUILDS up a suit of clothes. A fire is BUILT instead of made, and the expression is even extended to individuals, to be BUILT being used with the meaning of formed. [Farmer, "Slang and Its Analogues," 1890]
build (n.)
"style of construction," 1660s, from build (v.). Earlier in this sense was built (1610s). Meaning "physical construction and fitness of a person" attested by 1981. Earliest sense, now obsolete, was "a building" (early 14c.).
