being

柯林斯词典

1. Being is the present participle of . be的现在分词
2. V-LINK Being is used in nonfinite clauses where you are giving the reason for something. 用于非限定分句，表示原因
It being a Sunday, the old men had the day off. 因为是星期天，老人们休了一天假。
Little boys, being what they are, might decide to play on it. 小男孩们也许会决定耍弄它，因为他们就是这样。
3. N-COUNT You can refer to any real or imaginary creature as a being. (任何真实或虚构的) 生物
People expect a horse to perform like a car, with no thought for its feelings as a living being. 人们期望一匹马能表现得像一辆车那样，却没考虑到它作为一个活的生物的感受。
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."
亚伯拉罕•马斯洛将心理学描述为“存在科学”。
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 .