forgive
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they forgive | |
| he / she / it forgives | |
| past simple forgave | |
| past participle forgiven | |
| -ing form forgiving |
- [transitive, intransitive]
to stop feeling angry with somebody who has done something to harm, annoy or upset you; to stop feeling angry with yourself 原谅；宽恕 - forgive somebody
Can you ever forgive me? 你会有一天能原谅我吗？ - forgive yourself
I'd never forgive myself if she heard the truth from someone else. 如果她从别人那里听到了真相，我永远不会原谅自己。 - forgive somebody/yourself for something
I'll never forgive her for what she did. 我绝不会原谅她做的事。 - forgive somebody/yourself for doing something
She never forgave him for losing her ring. 她从没原谅他弄丢了她的戒指。 - forgive (something)
I can't forgive that type of behaviour. 我不能宽恕那种行为。 We all have to learn to forgive. 我们都得学会宽恕。 - forgive somebody something
She'd forgive him anything. 无论他做了什么，她都会原谅他。
Extra ExamplesI couldn't forgive him. 我无法原谅他。 I suspect that Rodney has never quite forgiven either of them. 我猜罗德尼一直没有完全原谅他们两个人。 He fell to his knees and begged God to forgive him. 他跪下来，请求上帝宽恕他。 Donna would not easily forgive Beth's silly attempt to trick her. 唐娜不会轻易原谅贝丝想欺骗她的愚蠢企图。 An insult like that isn't easy to forgive. 那种侮辱是无法轻易原谅的。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quite
- ever
- never
- …
- be able to
- be unable to
- can
- …
- for
- forgive and forget
- forgive somebody
- [transitive]
used to say in a polite way that you are sorry if what you are doing or saying seems rude or silly 对不起；请原谅 - forgive me
Forgive me, but I don't see that any of this concerns me. 对不起，我就看不出这与我有啥关系。 - forgive me for doing something
Forgive me for interrupting, but I really don't agree with that. 请原谅我打岔，不过我确实不同意那一点。 - forgive my…
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does the company do? 请原谅我的无知，这家公司到底是干什么的？ - forgive my doing something (formal)
Forgive my interrupting but I really don't agree with that. 请原谅我打岔，不过我确实不同意那一点。
- forgive me
- [transitive] forgive (somebody) something (formal)
(of a bank, country, etc. 银行、国家等 to say that somebody does not need to pay back money that they have borrowed 免除（债务）
Word OriginOld English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give.
Idioms
somebody could/might be forgiven for doing something
forgive and forget
to stop feeling angry with somebody for something they have done to you and to behave as if it had not happened 不念旧恶；不记仇 I know what he did was wrong but don’t you think it’s time to forgive and forget? 我知道他犯了错，但你不认为现在该是捐弃前嫌的时候了吗？ He was not the sort of man to forgive and forget. 他不是那种不记仇的人。
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