being

柯林斯词典

1. Being is the present participle of . be的現在分詞
2. V-LINK Being is used in nonfinite clauses where you are giving the reason for something. 用於非限定分句，表示原因
It being a Sunday, the old men had the day off. 因爲是星期天，老人們休了一天假。
Little boys, being what they are, might decide to play on it. 小男孩們也許會決定耍弄它，因爲他們就是這樣。
3. N-COUNT You can refer to any real or imaginary creature as a being. (任何真實或虛搆的) 生物
People expect a horse to perform like a car, with no thought for its feelings as a living being. 人們期望一匹馬能表現得像一輛車那樣，卻沒考慮到它作爲一個活的生物的感受。
4. →see also human being
5. N-UNCOUNT Being is existence. Something that is in being or comes into being exists. 存在
Abraham Maslow described psychology as "the science of being."
亞伯拉罕•馬斯洛將心理學描述爲“存在科學”。
6. →see also well-being
7. other things being equal→see equal
8. for the time being→see time

Some fans seem to regard footballers as divine beings.
The United States is in the van of the quest to establish contact with beings from the beyond.
There was a man on the news last night who reckons we've been visited by beings from other worlds .
All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.
Dinosaurs pre-existed human beings by many millions of years .