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a. 合适的, 适当的

  1. Blue is a very becoming color on me.
    我穿蓝色衣服非常适合。
  2. Blue always looks very becoming on her.
    她穿蓝色的服装总是很合适的。
  3. She has bent on becoming an actress.
    她决心成为一名女演员。


becoming
[ adj ]
  1. according with custom or propriety

  2. <adj.all>
    her becoming modesty
    comely behavior
    it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money
    a decent burial
    seemly behavior
  3. displaying or setting off to best advantage

  4. <adj.all>
    a becoming new shade of rose
    a becoming portrait


Become \Be*come"\, v. i. [imp. {Became}; p. p. {Become}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Becoming}.] [OE. bicumen, becumen, AS. becuman to
come to, to happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piqu["e]man,
Goth. biquiman to come upon, G. bekommen to get, suit. See
{Be-}, and {Come}.]
1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some
state or condition, by a change from another state, or by
assuming or receiving new properties or qualities,
additional matter, or a new character.

The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul. --Gen.
ii. 7.

That error now which is become my crime. --Milton.

2. To come; to get. [Obs.]

But, madam, where is Warwick then become! --Shak.

{To become of}, to be the present state or place of; to be
the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or
subsequent condition of.

What is then become of so huge a multitude? --Sir W.
Raleigh.


Becoming \Be*com"ing\, a.
Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.

A low and becoming tone. --Thackeray.

Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of.

Such discourses as are becoming of them.
--Dryden.

Syn: Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.


Becoming \Be*com"ing\, n.
That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]

  1. The Kremlin chief, who was responsible for agriculture before becoming party general secretary, frequently has consulted with Razumovsky on farm policy.
  2. Disney, 45, also served as Sunday editor at the Daily News before becoming editor-in-chief of Self and US magazines.
  3. With time running out for legislative action in the election season, the bill's chances of becoming law are cloudy.
  4. It's becoming a little weirder now. Before it was very melodic.
  5. Critics said the decision was to prevent the committees in each of Poland's 49 provinces from becoming parallel, possibly rival organizations to Solidarity.
  6. Sawyer was a South Side alderman for 16 years before becoming mayor.
  7. A teen-age girl died four days after becoming the world's first recipient of an experimental lung device, leaving behind a newborn son and a grieving hometown but hope that similar implants will save lives.
  8. Personal lending and other financial services are becoming increasingly competitive - as the establishment of NatWest Life demonstrates.
  9. Networks are becoming increasingly complex and need advanced software to control and manage them. The increased complexity is the result of broader scope of modern networking.
  10. Mortgage-Backed Securities At a time when derivative mortgage securities are becoming increasingly complex, Ryland Acceptanc Corp. proved that a simple structure can generate strong investor demand.
  11. "Abandonment of the uninsured is becoming a societal disgrace and a financial disaster for many hospitals," said Edward Thomas, president of Detroit Receiving Hospital and chairman of the Michigan Hospital Association.
  12. As the cold war ebbs, routine, maintenance-related dispatches on the presidential hot line are becoming more informal, said Tom Brothers, manager of the Fort Detrick earth station.
  13. In times of mass redundancies and company collapses, these are far from theoretical considerations. As interest rates fall it is becoming more expensive for wound-up schemes to buy insurance policies which will guarantee future pensions.
  14. Spring will report to the Army Space Program's Fairfax, Va., headquarters on Sept. 1, NASA spokesman Jeff Carr said Friday. Spring will train for nine months before becoming director next June.
  15. "We're becoming more and more aware that we're destroying this precious Earth," Miss Hawn said. "We have the power to influence others.
  16. But in these heady days evaluation of electricity companies has as much to do with the likelihood of them becoming bid targets as with their underlying performance.
  17. "Avoiding fat and cholesterol is becoming more popular among h-conscious adults, but it may be too restrictive for rapidly gneed about two and a half times more calories per day, pound for pound, than adts," he said.
  18. Moreover, history suggests that an "integrated" suburb is really an all-white suburb in the process of becoming an all-black suburb.
  19. Volvo North America Corp. has agreed to buy into Hertz Corp., becoming the second auto maker to take an equity stake in the rental-car concern.
  20. Although dealers said investors are becoming more bearish toward the dollar in the wake of the stock market's recent troubles and as the U.S. economy weakens, the dollar ended down only modestly.
  21. Nor did Mr. Davis try to visit any of the "campesinos" who are becoming a solid social base in support of the Contras, or even ask why so many former Sandinistas have defected and become supporters of those who are often said to have been Somocistas.
  22. But such bad news is becoming all too common for the discerning comic reader, who in the recent years has lost Larson's "The Far Side" and Trudeau's "Doonesbury" for extended periods while their creators escaped the day-to-day drudgery.
  23. The former auto dealer, elected in 1986 on his fifth try for governor, convicted by the Senate on charges he misused funds and obstructed justice, becoming the first governor impeached and removed from office since 1929.
  24. The industry is changing rapidly in terms of chains taking over nursing homes and hospitals becoming subsidiaries of holding companies "in all types of other businesses," he said.
  25. With its territorial greed, it's becoming a nuisance." As usual, the PLO's policy shift was subtle but clear.
  26. But hours later, an attorney for two anti-abortion activists said he obtained a stay from the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, blocking Martin Klein from becoming the guardian of his 32-year-old wife, Nancy.
  27. "He's becoming a joke," said Jack Trout, president of Trout & Ries, a marketing consulting firm in Greenwich, Conn.
  28. Lucius Barker, a political science professor at St. Louis' Washington University who was a Jackson delegate in 1984, said the he-cannot-win argument is becoming a code for opposition to Jackson on racial grounds.
  29. She and other foreigners decided to take their chances in the desert rather than risk becoming hostages in Baghdad.
  30. Nobody, however, seemed to have much idea what that meant. Akeler became convinced that protecting the environment was becoming commercially, as well as morally, worthwhile.
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