a)to make you want to ask a question that has not yet been answered 引出问题
beg the question of
This proposal begs the question of who is going to pay for the new building.
这个提议让人不禁要问: 谁来出资兴建新的大楼?
b)to treat an idea as though it were true or had been proved, when this may not be the case 想当然地认为
Examples from the Corpus
beg the question• To say that seems to me really to beg the question.• To say that sexualityexists in the brain simply begs the question.• All this begs the question about the reliability of Mr Dole's gut.• Such measures, of course, beg the question in many ways.• It is begging the question just to ask it.• Plenty of helices are not so stick-like, and of course the argumentbegs the question of how, rather than why.• It begs the question of what pictures will be sacrificed in order to trackSanders.• Which rather begs the question-shouldn't there be a governing body that regulates such questionabledecisions?