- pardon somebody to officially allow somebody who has been found guilty of a crime to leave prison and/or avoid punishment赦免;特赦
- She was pardoned after serving ten years of a life sentence.她被判終身監禁,服刑十年後被赦免了。
Topics Law and justicec2 - to forgive somebody for something they have said or done (used in many expressions when you want to be polite)原諒(表示禮貌時常用的詞語) synonym excuse
- pardon something Pardon my ignorance, but what is a ‘duplex’?請原諒我無知,duplex 是什麽呢?
- The place was, if you'll pardon the expression, a dump.那個地方,請恕我直言,簡直是個垃圾場。
pardon somebody (for something/for doing something)- You could be pardoned for thinking (= it is easy to understand why people think) that education is not the government's priority.人們認爲政府沒有優先考慮教育,這是不難理解的。
- Pardon me for interrupting you.對不起,打擾您了。
- pardon somebody/sb's doing something Pardon my asking, but is that your husband?請原諒我多問,那位是您的先生嗎?
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French pardun (noun), pardoner (verb), from medieval Latin perdonare ‘concede, remit’, from per- ‘completely’ + donare ‘give’.
Idioms - (informal) used to say that you are sorry for swearing請原諒我說髒話了;不好意思,我罵人了
- (especially North American English) used to ask somebody to repeat something because you did not hear it or do not understand it(用於請别人重複某事)什麽,請再說一次
- used by some people to say ‘sorry’ when they have done something wrong or made a rude noise by accident抱歉;對不起
see also I beg your pardon
pardon me for doing something
- used to show that you are upset or offended by the way that somebody has spoken to you(對别人的說話方式表示煩惱或生氣)原諒我不得不做某事
- ‘Oh, just shut up!’ ‘Well, pardon me for breathing!’“你給我閉嘴!” “嗬,不能讓人不呼吸吧!”