Offend
[ə'fend] or [ə'fɛnd]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To strike against; to attack; to assail.
(v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.
(v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.
(v. t.) To transgress; to violate; to sin against.
(v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
唐尼手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Affront, displease, vex, chafe, annoy, irritate, provoke, nettle, fret, gall, give offence to, make angry.[2]. Shock, wound, pain.
v. n. [1]. Give offence.[2]. Transgress, sin, do wrong, commit offence.
海伦娜編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Displease, affront, outrage, irritate, shock, annoy, pain, wound, nettle, vex,err, fall
ANT:Conciliate, gratify, please
卡梅拉整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to displease or make angry: to do harm to: to affront: (B.) to cause to sin.—v.i. to sin: to cause anger: (B.) to be made to sin.—n. Offence′ any cause of anger or displeasure: an injury: a crime: a sin: affront: assault.—adjs. Offence′ful (Shak.) giving offence or displeasure: injurious; Offence′less (Milt.) unoffending: innocent.—ns. Offend′er one who offends or injures: a trespasser: a criminal:—fem. Offend′ress; Offense′ &c. same as Offence &c.—adj. Offens′ive causing offence displeasure or injury: used in attack: making the first attack.—n. the act of the attacking party: the posture of one who attacks.—adv. Offens′ively.—n. Offens′iveness.—Offensive and defensive requiring all parties to make war together or to defend each other if attacked.—Give offence to cause displeasure; Take offence to feel displeasure be offended.
卡门錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I did it because I thought it would offend you; but, as you made no objection, I never did it again. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I hardly know what the girl did to offend them. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It was furtherest from my desire to hurt or offend you, whom I had hoped to protect and comfort. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Yet there are a thousand ways of helping them, if one only knows how to do it so delicately that it does not offend. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- As though you didn't want to offend any one. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You will not offend me, you know, said Mr. Farebrother, quite unaffectedly. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- She did not affect modesty, nor appear in the least offended at my intrusion. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The Colonel was so kind--Mr. Crawley might be offended and pay back the money, for which she could get no such good interest anywhere else. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was not good to meet Lord Steyne's eyes for those who had offended him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And she is mortally offended with Mr. Franklin Blake. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It is needless to say that I declined to understand that he was offended with me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Has Chettam offended you--offended you, you know? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He fears he has offended you, and has begged me to ask if you will see him for a few minutes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You had better neglect your relations than run the risk of offending your patroness. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- And was that the head and front of his offending? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The latter, all wild passion; the former, gentle, voluptuous, fearful of shocking or offending me, or frightening away my growing passion. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She could forgive her offending pupil, not her innocent self. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Do not be afraid of offending me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was noticeable that she no longer called the offending lady by her Christian name. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- She had learnt to feel my dread of offending him, and she accepted his proposal. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This tax, therefore, so far offends against the first of the four maxims above mentioned. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I do not want to vex you; and besides, we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me--' 'How! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The writers of comedy satisfied that almost universal craving for the depreciation of those whose apparent excellence offends our self-love. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It offends 'em. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
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