Riddance

['rɪd(ə)ns] or ['rɪdns]

(n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

(n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.

编辑:罗达

n. Freedom, escape, relief, deliverance.

手打:纳塔利

SYN:Quittance, dispensation, liberation, escape

ANT:Entanglement, burden, nuisance, annoyance

校对:赛克

A good riddance to me, whether as clerk or client! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
I had better be a riddance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
To Mr. Yorke he only said, You have a good riddance of me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
Dan'l, I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
No, I have one hundred, said Bulstrode, feeling the immediate riddance too great a relief to be rejected on the ground of future uncertainties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
Compeyson took it easy as a good riddance for both sides. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

手打:萨曼莎