英语词汇“indulge”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINindulge

Origin:

1600-1700 Latin indulgere

VERB TABLE

indulge

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	indulge
	he, she, it	indulges
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	indulged
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have indulged
	he, she, it	has indulged
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had indulged
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will indulge
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have indulged

Continuous Form
Present	I	am indulging
	he, she, it	is indulging
	you, we, they	are indulging
Past	I, he, she, it	was indulging
	you, we, they	were indulging
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been indulging
	he, she, it	has been indulging
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been indulging
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be indulging
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been indulging

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Katie's a spoiled brat because her parents indulge her too much.

Longman Language Activatorto do something that is bad or wrong► be up to

informal if someone is up to something they are probably doing something bad, but you do not know exactly what: · I know he's lying - what do you think he's up to?be up to something: · The kids have been whispering and giggling all day - I think they're up to something.be up to no good (=be doing something bad): · She was beginning to suspect that the handsome stranger was up to no good.

► get up to

British to do something that other people disapprove of, especially because you think it is funny or because you enjoy it: · She peeped into the bedroom to see what mischief her grandson was getting up to.· When we were students, we used to get up to all sorts of things.

► commit

to do something that is a crime, especially a serious crime: commit a crime/murder/robbery etc: · Women commit far fewer crimes than men.· The murder must have been committed between 7 and 10pm.

► indulge in

to do something that you enjoy, even though there is a reason you should not do it: · I was downtown, so I decided to indulge in a little shopping.· Most people indulge in harmless fantasies to relieve the boredom of their lives.

► stoop to

to do something that you know is morally wrong because you think it is the only way that you can achieve what you want to achieve: · "She even tried to get him fired." "I can't believe she'd stoop to that."stoop to doing something: · They ended up stooping to hair-pulling and name-calling.· His lawyers even stooped to using the children to gain public sympathy.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► indulge your passion for something

(=do something that you enjoy doing very much)· The money enabled him to indulge his passion for horses.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► in

· But many fans have said no to perhaps the biggest potential moneyspinner a club can indulge in, relocation.· She wanted to be indulged in all this, and who was I not to go along with her?· My principal inheritance was a justification for any irresponsibility I cared to indulge in thereafter.· This will be hard because of the excesses of grandiloquence the politicians have indulged in.· Don't encourage the unthinking sprinkling of salt over food that many people indulge in.· The new obsession with trendy design was indulged in by scattering diamond-shaped symbols around the pages.· Howard Samuel had indulged in, as was not unusual, an enjoyable dinner.· One is that environmental protection is too expensive to indulge in without thought of costs and benefits.

NOUN► activity

· Wednesday, he indulged in his favorite activity.· Second, there are physical objects, indulging in this activity, but constrained by precise mathematical laws.

► experiment

· They may be too keen to indulge in social experiments.· In the 1920s, the United States indulged in a similar experiment when it outlawed the distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages.

► fantasy

· The banks were used as limitless reservoirs to fertilise growth, indulge political fantasy and bribe the governments' friends.· If people want to indulge in fantasies about the glories of nature, that is their business.· Sometimes he would find himself indulging in fantasy, would picture them together in London in his new flat.· And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants.

► love

· She writes a little poetry and prose, and indulges her great love of cooking, at which she excels.· Teaching lets me to indulge my love of history.· He must have started as a joke, to indulge his love of singing and of local folk music.

► man

· A friend recently told me her man didn't indulge in self help.· Or, to put it another way, would men be able to indulge themselves if every woman was really faithful?· Now you will forgive an old man for indulging in his memories.· However, unlike in birds, it was not just the wives of low-ranking men who indulged.· No man could go on indulging himself with something he despised and not lose something vital to his integral self.

► opportunity

· Living as he does in Moycullen, he has ample local opportunities to indulge in these pastimes.

► passion

· Here he was able to indulge a growing passion for literature, but not poetry, he recollects.· Jermyn reminisces about a certain woman with whom he once indulged his passion and vanity.· But instances like the Primitives get rarer and already one feels ashamed for indulging such backward passions.· Turn to the Net to indulge your passion.

► people

· I liked the way people admired and indulged them.· While it might cut down on drug-related crime, the total level of harm certainly would skyrocket, as more people indulged.· Don't encourage the unthinking sprinkling of salt over food that many people indulge in.· If people want to indulge in fantasies about the glories of nature, that is their business.· To talk of planning and decision making is, to these people, to indulge in self-delusion.

VERB► allow

· Bech's querulous voice allows Updike to indulge in equal parts of satire and wish-fulfilment.· My privileged position allows me to indulge in self-pity and despair.· Winnie allowed herself to indulge in happy daydreams for some five minutes, and then pulled herself together sharply.· And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants.