behold
verb (old use or literary)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they behold | |
| he / she / it beholds | |
| past simple beheld | |
| past participle beheld | |
| -ing form beholding |
- behold somebody/something
to look at or see somebody/something 看；看见 Her face was a joy to behold. 她的容貌十分悦目。 They beheld a bright star shining in the sky. 他们看到了一颗明亮的星在天空中闪闪发光。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBehold is used with these nouns as the object:- sight
Word OriginOld English bihaldan, from bi- ‘thoroughly’ + haldan ‘to hold’. Parallel Germanic words have the sense ‘maintain, retain’; the notion of ‘looking’ is found only in English.
Idioms
lo and behold
- (humorous)
used for calling attention to a surprising or annoying thing （用于引起对令人惊讶或讨厌之事的注意）哎哟，你瞧，嗨，真想不到 As soon as we went out, lo and behold, it began to rain. 我们刚一出门，你瞧，就下起雨来了。