| 单词 | forgive |
| 释义 | forgiveforgive /fɚˈgɪv/ ●●○ verb (past tense forgave /-ˈgeɪv/, past participle forgiven /-ˈgɪvən/) [intransitive, transitive] 1to stop blaming someone or being angry with him or her, although he or she has done something wrong: Years later, Deanna was finally able to forgive her father.forgive somebody for (doing) something I can’t forgive him for what he said. He can’t forgive her for leaving him.forgive somebody something Lord, please forgive us our sins. If anything happened to the kids I’d never forgive myself. “I’m sorry.” “That’s okay, you’re forgiven (=used to say you are not angry with someone).” Maybe you can forgive and forget (=forgive someone and behave as if they had never done anything wrong), but I can’t.2forgive a loan/debt if a country or organization forgives a loan, it says that the money does not have to be paid back SYN write off: The U.S. has forgiven the country’s $42 million debt.3forgive me spoken used when you are going to say or ask something that might seem impolite or offensive, and you want it to seem more polite: Forgive me, but that’s not exactly a new idea. Forgive me for saying so, but yellow doesn’t look good on you.4somebody can be forgiven for thinking/wondering/feeling something used to say that it is easy to understand why someone would think, believe, or do something: You could be forgiven for thinking it was a joke. [Origin: Old English forgifan] |
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