| 单词 | indulge |
| 释义 | in·dulge transitive verb 1. archaic < a privilege seldom indulged to ordinary men > 2. a. < indulging idle conjectures as to what might be the news — Rafael Sabatini > < likes to indulge a taste for the difficult — Current Biography > < an excellent place to indulge a normal curiosity about clocks and watches — Ellwood Kirby > : take unrestrained pleasure in : yield to : gratify < indulge a taste for exotic dishes > b. < indulged himself in the delights of leisure > < indulge oneself in eating and drinking > < indulging herself in histrionics > 3. a. < indulge a convalescing child in whatever he wishes to eat > < indulged her husband until he would not lift a finger around the house > : favor in a way that pampers or treats with undue liberality < a time when schoolboys were less indulged with pocket money than they seem to be nowadays — Archibald Marshall > b. intransitive verb < offered him a drink but he protested that he did not indulge > Synonyms: < I wanted to indulge him in all his particular food fancies and very soon the air in the apartment became almost visible with the reek of garlic sausage, smoked kippers and cheeses of strong character — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > < grandmamma is always wanting to see them, for she humors and indulges them to such a degree, and gives them so much trash and sweet things, that they are sure to come back sick — Jane Austen > pamper implies inordinate gratification of an appetite or taste especially for luxuries or for what is softening in its physical or moral effects < he preserved without an effort the supremacy of character and mind over the flesh he neither starved nor pampered — G.L.Dickinson > < no country can afford to pamper snobbery — G.B.Shaw > < pamper a child with rich foods and constant solicitude > humor implies an unusual attention to or a voluntary yielding to what are regarded as another's whims or caprices, often suggesting a purposeful sometimes patronizing accommodation to another's moods < humoring a pet fawn which had a predilection for soap and cigarette butts — Ray Corsini > < the tone of your voice, when you speak, is too gentle, as if you were humoring the vagaries of a blind man's mind — Ben Hecht > < humor a customer for the sake of making a sale > spoil implies a foolish or excessive indulging or pampering and throws strong stress upon its injurious effects upon the character or disposition < the new queen played with and spoiled the little stepdaughter — Edith Sitwell > < he had been a noisy boastful youth and had been spoiled by his father — Sherwood Anderson > baby implies excessive attentions, as to one unable to care for himself and needing the assistance of a mother or nurse; when applied to one presumably capable, it carries the idea of treating with excessive usually foolish care or carefulness < if he thinks I'm going to spend my days catering to his whims, babying him and watching over him like a child, he's mistaken — Helen S. Rush & Mary Sherkanowski > < your old records will last longer with this new device to baby them — Coronet > mollycoddle is the strongest of this group in implying inordinate attention and suggesting a ridiculously undue care for another's health or physical comfort or for the relieving of the strain or hardship he presumably, usually fictitiously, suffers or may suffer < a mother who mollycoddles her children by constantly dosing them, keeping them in when it's at all cold or damp and away from other children for fear of germs > < protests against the policy of mollycoddling prisoners — J.F.Steiner & R.M.Brown > • - indulge in |
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