1[always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]BEHAVE to do things that are good, bad, sensible etc 表现SYN act
She behaved in a very responsible way.
她表现得很有责任心。
behave towards
I think he behaved disgracefully towards you.
我觉得他对你太不像话了。
behave like
grown men behaving like schoolboys
表现得像小学生一样的成年男子
behave as if/though
He was a little boy, but he behaved as if he was an adult.
他是个小男孩,可表现得跟大人一样。
2 (also behave yourself)BEHAVE to not do things that annoy or offend people 举止规矩有礼;检点OPP misbehave
Will you children please behave!
你们这些孩子能不能规矩一点!
I hope Nicholas behaved himself at the party.
我希望尼古拉斯在聚会上规矩一点。
well-behaved/badly-behaved
a badly-behaved class
不守规矩的班级
3[always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]DO if something behaves in a particular way, it does those things 作出反应,发生作用
Quantum mechanics is the study of the way atoms behave.
量子力学是研究原子运动的学科。
nTHESAURUS
behave to do and say things that are good, bad, normal, strange etc
His teacher said he’d been behaving badly at school.
I’m not going to talk to her until she starts behaving reasonably.
Oh, be quiet! You’re behaving like a two-year-old.
act to behave in a particular way, especially in a way that seems unusual, surprising, or annoying to other people
Tina’s been acting very strangely lately.
What makes grown people act like that?
treat to behave towards someone or deal with someone in a particular way
She said that he’d treated her really badly throughout their two-year marriage.
I’m sick of my parents treating me like a child.
conform to behave in the way that most other people in your group or society behave
Young people sometimes want to rebel and therefore they refuse to conform.
Society typically brings pressure on individuals and groups to conform to civilised norms.
conduct yourself formal to behave in a particular way, especially in a situation where people will notice and judge the way you behave
Public figures have a duty to conduct themselves responsibly, even in their private lives.
By the end of the course, you should be able to conduct yourself with confidence in any meeting.
Examples from the Corpus
behave• Her kids just don't know how to behave.• Although men provide more menace to the basis of a society, it is women who are instructed in how to behave.• The next time I saw him, Frankbehaved as if nothing had happened.• Then a great many of the bar's occupants began to behave as if they had just rememberedurgentappointments.• Eventually, the children themselves may begin to understand their own feelings, and why they behave as they do.• How does Sam behave at school?• You behaved bravely in a very difficult situation.• A policespokesman said the demonstrators were well behaved but wet.• If you two don't behave, I'm taking you straight home.• The best way to behave is to act assertively, she said.• Oh, be quiet! You're behaving like a two-year-old.• I'm not going to talk to him until he starts behaving reasonably.• Given that malealbatrosses have the same geneticincentives as male elephantseals, why do they behave so differently?• She had behaved very reasonably, she told her husband afterwards.• William was behaving very strangely towards me.• If you behave yourself, I'll let you stay up to watch the movie.• Make sure you behave yourselves when we visitGrandma.
behaved in a ... way• As an entity, the United States behaved in the same way.• If they had been in their subordinates' shoes, they would have behaved in the same way.• We can imagine that, if we believed what the Calvinists believed, we would have behaved in the same way.• She behaved in this way ever since the first attempt...• That the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent.• She behaved in a shocking way towards her.• In return, they have, not surprisingly, behaved in ways which confirmed these perceptions.• Some at least of the leading Romans felt and behaved in a way which seemed to him perfectly understandable and eminently sensible.
From Longman Business Dictionary
behavebe·have /bɪˈheɪv/ verb [intransitiveI]
to act or to do something in a particular way
Both gold and oil prices behaved exactly as analysts and investors had been predicting.
Originbehave
(1400-1500)have“to hold or bear (yourself), behave”((14-16 centuries))