| 词组 | betake oneself |
| 释义 | betake oneself Nickles 1974 lists betake oneself as a "raconteur's cliché." You, however, need not avoid the expression, for it is the only remaining live use of the verb. • Perkin Warbeck betook himself to the Netherlands —James A. Williamson, The Tudor Age, 1964 • ... betook himself to the trackless wasteland of the Sinai Peninsula —Raymond A. Sokolov, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 20 Apr. 1980 • ... the firm ... betook itself to the far shore of the Hudson, where rents are more merciful —G. Bruce Boyers, Town & Country, February 1983 |
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