betide \bih-TAHYD\, verb:
1. To happen to; come to; befall.
2. To happen; come to pass.
"Ill luck betide thee, poor damsel," said Sancho, "ill luck betide thee!"
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
"The girls' skirts are measured each week with a dressmaker's rule," she would say, "to see that they conform to the length prescribed. Woe betide any girl whose skirt does not."
-- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
Betide stems from the Old English word tide meaning "something that happened." As in besot and belabor, the prefix be- turns the noun into a verb.
發生於\波黑TAHYD\，動詞：
1。發生;來;降臨。
2。發生;應驗。
“厄運發生於你，可憐的姑娘，”桑丘說，“厄運發生於你！”
- 塞萬提斯，“堂吉訶德”
“女孩的裙子是衡量一個裁縫的規則，每星期，”她說，“看到他們符合長度規定。禍發生於任何女孩的裙子沒有。”
- 希拉里·曼特爾，在愛的實驗
發生於莖“發生的一件事”，從舊的英文單詞潮意義。使人醉和痛打，前綴變成一個動詞的名詞。
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