Absolve
[əb'zɒlv] or [əb'zɑlv]
解释:
(v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.
(v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.
(v. t.) To finish; to accomplish.
(v. t.) To resolve or explain.
编辑:谢恩
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Acquit, clear, release, liberate, free, discharge, loose, deliver, exculpate, exonerate, excuse, forgive, pardon, JUSTIFY, set free.
手打:路易
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Acquit, release, exonerate, liberate, exempt, discharge, exculpate, pardon,forgive, free, clear
ANT:Charge, accuse, compel, bind, obligate, convict, condemn, inculpate, impeach,oblige
整理:塞丽娜
解释:
v.t. to loose or set free: to pardon: to acquit: to discharge (with from).—ns. Absolv′er one who gives absolution or acquits; Absolv′itor a decision favourable to a defender.—v.t. Assoil′zie in Scots law to absolve the accused on the grounds that the evidence disproves or does not establish the charge.
整理:莎丽
例句:
- A wall is a wall: the presence of it will not do the work of civilization--the absence of it does not absolve anyone from the tasks of social life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is I that absolve you from an engagement which is impossible in our present misery. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I know that it was sincere, and that my wish and aim were to absolve her to herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- My good cousin, absolve yourself from that! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I tell you, my dear, _I_ cannot absolve myself from the promises I make to these helpless creatures. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- No--I absolve you of that, he agreed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- No one is absolved from experiment and constant revision. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- From the rest, he was absolved entirely for the time being. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And yet, said I, smiling, I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- J'ai menti plusieurs fois, formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Whether she charged herself with these faults or absolved herself from them, made no difference in the sum-total of her failure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
校对:梅雷迪思