Forgive
[fə'gɪv] or [fɚ'ɡɪv]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) stop blaming or grant forgiveness; 'I forgave him his infidelity'; 'She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday'.
(verb.) absolve from payment; 'I forgive you your debt'.
整理:纳特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.
(v. t.) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven.
(v. t.) To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending.
校對:玛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Pardon (especially for a small offence), absolve, excuse, acquit.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See PARDON]
手打:南希
解釋/意思:
v.t. to pardon: to overlook an offence or debt: (Spens.) to give up.—v.i. to be merciful or forgiving.—adj. Forgiv′able capable of being forgiven.—n. Forgive′ness pardon: remission: disposition to pardon.—adj. Forgiv′ing ready to pardon: merciful: compassionate.
編輯:普鲁登斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I admit that I do press it, and I must beg you to forgive me if I do so, very earnestly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But you know I am but an uncouth Milton manufacturer; will you forgive me? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- My dear, said Mrs. Shelby, recollecting herself, forgive me. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I'll never forgive you if you do, for I want them all to know my friend. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But I have asked him to forgive me since,' cried Bella; 'and I would ask him to forgive me now again, upon my knees, if it would spare him! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- If Rose had--I cannot utter that word now--if this illness had terminated differently, how could you ever have forgiven yourself! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But Amelia has never forgiven that Smith to this day, though he is now a peaceful apothecary near Leicester Square. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In another world, if I am forgiven, I may wake a child and come to you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Besides (she angrily told her looking-glass), she didn't want to be forgiven. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It is certainly odd, when she had forgiven you, and had forgiven your wife, and was going to see ye on purpose to make friends. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The witch shall be taken out of the land, and the wickedness thereof shall be forgiven. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But I forgave her long ago; and I forgive him now. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- So he forgave young Bullock and consented that the marriage should take place. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She wronged me again and again, and again and again I forgave her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She forgave me; and why should she not have forgiven you? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Should you think all that pleasant enough if I forgave you? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She has offended somebody: who never forgives--whose rage redoubled when he saw you. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Since we do not have God here any more, neither His Son nor the Holy Ghost, who forgives? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Woman forgives but too readily, Captain. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- With my diary, the poor labourer (who forgives Mr. Blake for insulting her) is worthy of her hire. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But you'll say a word to her for me, and ask her to be as forgiving as you two are? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Say everything as is kind and forgiving on your part? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As soon as he had gone, she wished she had been more forgiving, and when Meg and her mother went upstairs, she felt lonely and longed for Teddy. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Revenge is sometimes sweet, even to the most forgiving lady, when the manner of it is not too desperate. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnanimous, and forgiving one. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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