单词 | feel/be beholden to somebody |
释义 | feel/be beholden to somebodyfeel/be beholden to somebody MUSTto feel that you have a duty to someone because they have done something for you 觉得对某人有所亏欠/欠某人人情 Examples from the Corpus feel/be beholden to somebody• Ludwig is beholden to the President, who gave him his job.• I don't like to be beholden to anybody, I like to be my own boss.• Yet most judges I know are beholden to Power-by that I mean unalterably pledged to the dominant force of the system.• There was no longer any need for her to be beholden to Fen Marshall. → feel/be beholden to somebody at beholden(1) |
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