Beseem

(v. t.) Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.

(v. i.) To seem; to appear; to be fitting.

整理:默娜

• Men say thou dost love wine, and a lady's smile, better than beseems thy Order, Sir Priest; but with that I have nought to do. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Quebec and Malta lay the cloth for dinner, while Woolwich, serving, as beseems him, under his father, keeps the fowls revolving. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Our road, said the Palmer, should here separate; for it beseems not men of my character and thine to travel together longer than needs must be. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Not that it behoved or beseemed me to say anything: but one can occasionally _look_ the opinion it is forbidden to embody in words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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