behest
behest 英 [bɪˈhest] 美 [bɪˈhɛst]
n. 命令；邀请；请求
名词复数:behests
- Behest is an authoritative command or request. If your boss or principal asks to see you, you go to their office at their behest.
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- n. 命令；邀请；请求
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1. Moreover, while all this is happening, immigrants are allegedly streaming into the US, partly at the behest of big business, to keep the labour market weak.
此外，尽管这一切都在进行，但移民们声称，他们涌入美国部分是因为大财团一直希望劳动力市场保持虚弱。
- behest (n.) c. 1200, from Old English behæs "a vow," perhaps from behatan "to promise" (from be- + hatan "command, call;" see cite) and confused with obsolete hest "command," which may account for the unetymological -t as well as the Middle English shift in meaning to "command, injunction" (late 12c.). Both hatan and hest are from Proto-Germanic *haissiz, from an extended, suffixed form of PIE root *keie- "to set in motion."
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