bespeak
vt. 预定; 订(货); 证明; 预先请求
If someone's action or behaviour bespeaks a particular quality, feeling, or experience, it shows that quality, feeling, or experience.
The tone of his text bespeaks a certain tiredness.
他的笔调透出一种倦意。
1. be a signal for or a symptom of;
2. express the need or desire for; ask for;
Her house, her style of living, all bespeak an exceeding good income.
她的家, 她的生活方式, 都证明她有一笔很大的收入.
You need't bespeak contempt, Linton : anybody will have It'spontaneously at your service.
你用不着要求蔑视, 林敦: 你随时都可以叫任何人自然而然地瞧不起你.
His polite manners bespeak the gentleman.
他的彬彬有礼的态度显示出他是个绅士.
I come here to bespeak Fanny a seal.
我上这儿来为范妮定刻一枚图章.
Today's events bespeak a bright future.
今天的事件预示着一个美好的未来.