behang

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape. transitive
    — Now seven times had frosty-bearded Winter covered both herbs and flowers with snow, and behung the trees with crystal icicles, since the unfortunate St. George beheld the cheerful light of heaven, but lived obscure in a dismal dungeon, […]

词形变化

behangs present,singular,third-person behanging participle,present behung participle,past behung past

词源

From Middle English *behangen, behongen, bihangien, bihengen, from Old English behōn (“to hang round”), equivalent to be- + hang. Cognate with Dutch behangen (“to decorate”), German behängen (“to hang, drape, decorate”).
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