bear
1.除了作“生（孩子）”解以外，bear的过去分词是borne，不是born。作“生（孩子）”解，bear的过去分词有两个，borne和born，但用法不同。下面几点该注意：
（1）用在主动语态，该用borne。例如：She has borne several children.
（2）用在被动语态而后面有by，也该用borne。例如：This is one of the three boys borne by his stepmother.
（3）用在被动语态而后面没有by，该用born。例如：
A son was born to him.
I was born in 1926.
注意第一句里用to。
2.说某次的生孩子通常不用bear，如“昨夜她生了一个男孩子”通常不说She bore a boy last night，却有下面四种说法：
She gave birth to a boy last night.
She was delivered of a boy last night.
She was brought to bed of a boy last night.
She had a boy last night.
注意第二句和第三句里都用of。
但She bore him a daughter a year after their marriage等句子里用bore是合乎习惯的。注意bore有双宾语。
3.下面三句的意思都是“他是天生的演说家”：
He was born an orator.
He is a born orator.
He is an orator born.
4.bear现在很少用作carry解，在口语里更少用。
5.bear可以用作“忍受”解，bear with也作“忍受”解，有下面几点该注意：
（1）对于人bear和bear with都可以用。例如：I cannot bear (with) him.
（2）对于情形bear和bear with也都可以用，但用bear普通些。例如：I cannot bear (with) such a situation.
（3）对于抽象的意思通常用bear。例如：I cannot bear that idea.
（4）只有bear后面可以接不定式和动名词，如I cannot bear to leave him alone和I cannot bear leaving him alone。也只有bear后面可以接宾语和不定式。例如：I cannot bear you to be left alone. 也有人说I cannot bear for you to be left alone。
6.I cannot bear leaving you alone里的leaving在形式和意思上都是主动的。These examples are perhaps too well known to bear being reprinted里的being reprinted在形式上和意思上都是被动的。但That won't bear thinking of（那是不堪一想的）里的thinking在形式上是主动的，在意思上却是被动的，这句跟That won't bear being thought of意思完全相同。His language（或story）won't（或doesn't）bear repeating是“他说的话（或他讲的事）不堪重述。”这句习惯上用repeating，不用being repeated。
7.bear（忍耐）后面有时接以that引导的从句。例如：She could not bear that her friends should laugh at her so much.
8.在把熊当作打猎的对象时通常用bear而不用bears。例如：They went out to hunt bear.
