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betide 英 [bɪˈtaɪd] 　美 [bɪˈtaɪd]

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betide

vt. 预示；降临于，发生于　 vi. 发生　

进行时:betiding　过去式:betided　过去分词:betided　第三人称单数:betides　名词复数:betides　

The omens betide better results.　这预兆表明会产生较好的效果。

But woe betide those who clean on new year's day, for you will be sweeping away good fortune in the year ahead.　但在新年那天进行清扫则预示着灾难，会把未来一年的好运气都扫走了。

When something betides you, it happens to you. Betide is a literary way of saying “happen,” like in this quote from Jane Austin’s Persuasion, “Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence….”

1. The omens betide better results.

这预兆表明会产生较好的效果。
2. But woe betide those who clean on new year's day, for you will be sweeping away good fortune in the year ahead.

但在新年那天进行清扫则预示着灾难，会把未来一年的好运气都扫走了。
3. Neglect it at your cost, but if you forget an anniversary, woe betide you...

忽视这一点，你将会吃苦头，而如果你忘记某一个纪念日，那你就惨了……

betide (v.) late 12c., "to happen, come to pass," from be- + tiden "to happen" (see tide (v.)). Transitive sense "happen to (someone)" is from early 13c. Surviving, if at all, in the expression woe betide! (late 14c.).

be·tide / bɪˈtaɪd ; NAmE bɪˈtaɪd / verb IDIOMsee woe be·tide / bɪˈtaɪd ; NAmE bɪˈtaɪd /

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