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bestowvt.
1. give给予。
△As.5.4.6: “You say. if I bring inyour Rosalind./You will bestow her on Orlandohere?”您说，我若是把你的罗萨琳带到这里来，您愿意把她给奥兰多吗？
△Oth.2.1.144:“But what praise couldst thoubestow on a deserving woman indeed”，但是对于一位真值得称道的女人，你又怎样赞美呢？
2. provide,afford,lay out供给，提供，安排。
△Ham.4.1.4:“ Bestow this place on us a little while.” i.e.Leave us. 请把这地方给我们暂用一会儿。
△H.V.2.1.12(11): “I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends.”(Hostess Quickly once promised to marry Nym butlater married Pistol,thus making them rivals to eachother.)我愿意请二位一顿早餐，让你们和好。
3. grant转让。
△Oth. 4. 1. 12:“and being hers,/She may,I think,bestow ’t on any man.”既然属于她了，我想她就可转让给任何人。
4.grant,confer把…授予，把…授与。
△3H.VI.4.1.56:“Or else you would not have bestowed the heir(i.e. heiress)/ Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife’s son.”要不然你也不会把邦维尔勋爵的女继承人赏给你的新娘的儿子。
5. give away送掉。
△Tw.1.5.201(188):“for what isyours to bestow is not yours to reserve.”因为，你所有准备送人的东西，就不应该保留起来。(按：指“女人应该嫁人”。)
6.give lodging to,lodge,settle,place给…安排住所，供给住宿，使定居，安置。
△Lr.2.4.291 (288):“This houseis little,the old man and’s(= his) people/Cannot bewell bestowed .”这屋子太小，老头子和他那些人可住不下。
△Lr.4.6.294 (286):“Come,father,I’ll bestow youwith a friend.”来，老人家，我送你到一个朋友那里去住。
△Mac.3.1. 30(29):“We hear our bloody cousins arebestowed / In England and in Ireland，” i.e. Malcolmand Donalbain have settled in England and in Ireland.我听说我那位凶恶的王侄已经分别逃到了英格兰和爱尔兰。
△1H.VI. 3.2.87:“Come,my lord,/We will bestowyou in some better place.”来，大人，我们要把你安置在一个更好的地方。
△Wiv.4.5.111(107):“and so they shall be both bestowed.”这样她们两个就都算有了着落。
△Ham. 22. 553(522): “Good my lord (= my good lord),will you see the players well bestowed?”好阁下，可否请你给这班演员好好安排个住处？
7. lead,bring,conduct带领，陪送，引导。
△Oth.3.1.57(54): “I will bestow you where you shall have time/ To speak your bosom freely.”我领你去一个地方，在那里你可以随意倾诉你的心事。
8. place,stow,put on board the ship安放，装载，装船。
△Mer.2.2.186 (170): “These things being bought and orderly bestowed，”这些东西买齐了，安放好了。
9. dispose of,stow away处理，收拾。
△Ham.3.4.176:“I will bestow him,and will answer well/The death I gave him. ”我先把他安顿好，再来担当我把他杀死的责任。
10.conceal,hide隐蔽，隐藏。
△Ham. 3.1.33 (32):“We’ll so bestow ourselves that,seeing unseen,/ We may of their encounter frankly judge，”我们躲藏起来，看见他们而不被他们看见，便可以自由地审察他们全面的情形。
△Ham.3.1.44 (43):“We will bestow ourselves.”我就去躲藏起来吧。
11. stow away. deposit收藏，存放。
△Ham.4.3.12:“Where the dead body is bestowed. my lord,/ We cannot get from him.”陛下，死尸藏在哪里，我们从他那里没能问出来。
△Com.1.2. 78: “In what safe place you have bestowed my money”，你把我的钱存放到什么地方了？
△Wiv.4.2.48 (46): “How should I bestow him?”我怎样把他藏起来呢？
12. employ,use使用，用。
△Ado.2.1. 238 (229): “and the rod he might have bestowed on you，”鞭子，他可以用到你的身上。
△Com.4.1.16: “And buy a rope’s end; that will I bestow/Among my wife and her confeder-ates，”去买 一根绳子，我要用它来对付我的妻子和她那一伙同谋者。
13.spend,employ花费，使用。
△Wiv.2.1.247(239):“’tis labour well bestowed.”这番力气花得也合算。
△Wiv.2.2.206 (195):“bestowed much on her；”在她身上花了不少钱。
△2H.Ⅳ. 4.2.73: “and if you knew whatpains/I have bestowed to breed this present peace,/You would drink freely.”要是你知道我为了缔造现在这次和平付出了多少心血，你就会开怀畅饮了。
△2H.Ⅳ.5.5.12(10):“O,if I had had time to have made new liveries,I would have bestowed the thousand pound I bor-rowed of you.”(you: Shallow.)啊，如果我有时间做几套新制服，我从你那里借的那一千镑就会花个一干二净了。
△Tw.1.3.99 (92): “I would I had bestowed that time in thetongues,that I have in fencing,dancing and bear-bai-ting.”我真该把我花在击剑、跳舞和耍熊上面的时间用在学习几种外国语上面。
～ vb. refl.
1. conduct,behave,deport表现，举止，行动。
△As.4.3.88 (86):“and bestows himself/Like a ripe sister；”举止像是一位大姐姐。
△Gent. 3.1.87:“How and in whichway I may bestow myself”，我应该怎样处身行事。
△2H.Ⅳ.2.2.186(169):“How might we see Falstaffbestow himself tonight in his true colours,and notourselves be seen?”我们今天晚上怎样才能看看福斯塔夫露出本相，而我们自己不被他看见呢？
2. lodge,put up为…提供住宿。
△Mac. 3.6.23: “Sir.can you tell/where he bestows himself?”i.e. Where has he taken refuge?大人，你能告诉我，他现在在什么地方吗？
3. betake,place使前往，使就位。
bestow yourself: take up your position,take yourplace,repair to your post在你的职位上安顿下来，就位吧，到你的岗位上去。
△H.Ⅴ.4.3.68: “My sovereign lord.bestow yourself with speed.”我的主上，请你赶快就位吧。 bestow[biˈstəu]v. 赠与，恩赐
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