Definition of forgive in English:

forgive

verbforgave, forgiven fəˈɡɪvfərˈɡɪv

[with object]

1Stop feeling angry or resentful towards (someone) for an offence, flaw, or mistake.
原谅，饶恕，宽恕（某人）
I'll never forgive David for the way he treated her
大卫如此对待她，我想我永远也不会原谅他的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Arlene always said I could forgive anyone for anything if they intrigued me enough.
- Readers will forgive you anything except your uncomplicated success.
- I try to forgive myself first of all, and then I ask the other person with whom I'm angry to forgive me as well.
- She had abandoned him, he thought, because she could not live in a world that would not forgive her for her mistakes.
- Fans will forgive players anything as long as they wear their team's shirt with pride.
- He will have to forgive you and stop being a parole officer, or you'll have to call it a day.
- In any case, such is the pace and brilliance of the narrative that one feels that one can forgive the author almost anything.
- He wasn't sure if she'd forgive him for his angry words very quickly, but she'd get over it and this would help.
- But he had never truly been in love before, either, so we will forgive him his mistakes as well.
- Still, he's my only brother, and I tend to forgive him anything.
- The woman's nose finally stopped hurting when she truly forgave her father.
- So yes, I will take you back, and I will forgive you for your mistake, and I have missed you so much.
- Then we will never beat a child, but forgive him for his mistakes.
- He wanted a girlfriend who loved him so much that she would easily forgive him for anything.
- He asked Russians to forgive him for his mistakes and failing to realize their dreams after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- George forgave me for my mistake at the time, so there was no ill will.
- She desperately wanted to forgive him and stop him from going, but her pride got in the way.
- Love was not supposed to run this deep or feel this right, as though he could do anything and she would forgive him.
- You could forgive her for anything because of her passion for journalism.
- At first, Julie had turned her back on him, too angry to forgive him but slowly he had acquired her trust, her love.
Synonyms
pardon, excuse, exonerate, absolve, acquit, let off, grant an amnesty to, amnesty
make allowances for, stop feeling resentful towards, feel no resentment towards, stop feeling malice towards, feel no malice towards, harbour no grudge against, bury the hatchet with
let bygones be bygones
informal let someone off the hook, go easy on
rare exculpate
1. 1.1 No longer feel angry about or wish to punish (an offence, flaw, or mistake)
  I was willing to forgive all her faults for the sake of our friendship
  为了我们的友谊，我愿意原谅她的一切过错。
  no object he had never found it easy to forgive and forget
  他从来都没有觉得不念旧恶是件容易的事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At the same time, as we confess our sins, let us forgive the faults committed by others toward us.
  At the end of the American Civil War, for example, President Lincoln forgave many crimes that might legitimately have been prosecuted.
  Just as he forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, so he continues his work of healing and salvation today through the sacrament.
  According to the Talmud the ribbon stopped turning white in the year 30 A.D. So this showed God was no longer forgiving the sins of Israel by means of the scapegoat.
  However, when you get rid of Christianity, you don't get rid of the conviction of sin and judgment, you merely get rid of any hope of forgiving the sin or tempering the judgment.
  Because he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more.
  Christ has brought believers from darkness into a kingdom of light and forgiven their sins absolutely and without question.
  The other guests began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’
  We are able to acknowledge horrendous scenarios, justify our errors, and forgive our mistakes by making a situation light-hearted.
  The revelation of this book is from Allah, exalted in power, full of knowledge, who forgives sin, accepts repentance, is strict in punishment, and has a long reach in all things.
  I've learned that God has been showing me to forgive myself, because it's in the Bible that God - in the Old Testament and in the New - that God forgives sins for those who come to him through faith in Christ.
  Certainly the American electorate has forgiven the sins of those who tried to avoid the war.
  The roots of the idea, however, lie not in forgiving the sin committed by human beings, but in protecting them from evil done to them.
  The cross in Mark does not function as the means through which Jesus forgives sins.
  Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again?
  His last wish was for you to know all is forgiven, come home.
  He could not do it because no man rightly can forgive the sins he has committed against others.
  The grace of God is not simply a holy hypodermic whereby my sins are forgiven.
  I think God will more readily forgive our sins against him, whom we cannot see, than against our fellow humans, whom we do see.
  He told people to be honest whatever the cost, promised them eternal life without sorrow or pain and said he could forgive sin.
2. 1.2 Cancel (a debt)
  免除（债务）
  he proposed that their debts should be forgiven
  他提议免除他们的债务。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He also apparently owed his pusher quite a bit of money, so the prospect of living and the debt being forgiven in exchange for planting the device had been too much for him.
  As a general rule, this money doesn't help the poor, and forgiving the debt is not a gesture of kindness to the neediest people in the world.
  A number of other countries have already forgiven their debts to you, be they government to government or otherwise.
  Less than two weeks ago, the G8 agreed to forgive the debts of 18 poor nations.
  Would it make a difference if our national debt were suddenly forgiven in full?
  Even after we succeed in forgiving the debts of a country, they will get right back into debt if we don't change trading relationships.
  If all we do is say, we will only loan you the money, then we can never argue to those countries that they've got to forgive those debts.
  Not answering your phone does not make creditors forgive the debt.
  In a few cases, a substantial discount was given or debt was forgiven outright.
  They would rather inflame the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo than forgive African debt.
  Several major publishers donated books, and forgave debts or extended credit.
  We can forgive the debts of Third World dictatorships, but these guys will run it up again and pocket the dough.
  The Government is forgiving debt in one instance.
  Unless some of this debt is forgiven, they will be paying in perpetuity.
  Whatever debt is forgiven will be reimbursed in some form so that the solvency of the institutions is not threatened.
  We actually have to be giving aid, forgiving debt and rigorously addressing corruption, not just saying oh well you just get yourselves into order and we aren't morally obliged to help until you do.
  The president seems to think that this is an opportunity now to forgive that debt and to wipe it clean and move on.
  Such is the divine compassion: it heals and feeds, forgives huge debts, nurses hurt bodies back to health and welcomes home sinners, restoring them to a place of honor.
  Besides having faulty laws and courts, governments block debt workouts by forgiving debts of companies deemed too big or prestigious to fail.
  I can either shut you down or I can forgive some debts, and even give you some operating money.
3. 1.3 Used in polite expressions as a request to excuse one's foibles, ignorance, or impoliteness.
  （礼貌用语）请原谅；请宽容
  you will have to forgive my suspicious mind
  请你原谅我的多疑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At 67 minutes, It may seem a little long, but there's such a surfeit of grooviness you can forgive the odd indulgence.
  Sanctuary, forgive the expressions, but where on earth are you and what the hell have you done?
  So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment.
  I haven't proof read it or anything, so forgive me if there are grammatical errors and stuff.
  Please forgive my ignorance and realize that the events and happenings are totally fictional.
  Now, most of my travel had been underground on the Tube so you will have to forgive my ignorance; I was yet to cross a bridge in London.
  Now, forgive my ignorance, but just who is this director, Franco Zeffirelli?
  Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet?
  Now you better be as - forgive the expression - angels until the year closes out.
  Lying about one's age is, forgive the expression, an age-old practice if one is a woman.
  This is my first camera with a decent macro, so please forgive my temporary indulgence with this feature.
  This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance.
  Synonyms
  excuse, overlook, disregard, ignore, pass over, make allowances for, allow
  condone, let go, let pass, sanction, turn a blind eye to, turn a deaf ear to, wink at, connive at, blink at, indulge, tolerate
  rare extenuate

Phrases

one could (or may) be forgiven for doing something

It would be understandable if one mistakenly did a particular thing.
可以理解（某种出错）
with the plaster palm trees, you could be forgiven for thinking you were on Hollywood Boulevard
有那么多石膏棕榈树，即使你误以为你是走在好莱坞大道上也是可以理解的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Having closed last week's column with reference to a man of the cloth, you may be forgiven for starting to wonder if I've recently found God.
- Peering through the gloom out of the car window, you could be forgiven for thinking you are the butt of some airline employee's warped sense of humour.
- Choose a Friday or a Saturday and you may be forgiven for thinking it's now legal to park on double yellow lines after 5pm.
- Reading recent coverage of events in north Belfast, you could be forgiven for thinking there was something dodgy in the water turning Belfast residents into sectarian monsters.
- For a city that seldom sees snow and is, of course, pancake flat you may be forgiven for thinking that I have quite simply gone mad.
- Given the large crowd which will pack the Fife circuit, and the million-plus viewers who will tune in to watch on terrestrial television, you could be forgiven for thinking there can't be much wrong with motorsport as popular as this.
- For many, however, the prospect of even trying pink nail varnish on your fingers is a step too far and, by now, you may be forgiven for feeling the only pink that will do is a pink gin.
- From the outside, with the sounds of laughing children and chooks and the overgrown fence line, you could be forgiven for mistaking Cubbies for some sort of hippy commune.
- The Great Yorkshire Show, of course, takes great pride in the livestock on display, although with names like British Belgian Blue and Lincoln Red you could be forgiven for mistaking the names of cattle for cheeses.
- Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking that corruption lies at the heart of everything we touch, marred as the past days have been with scandals and sackings, although retribution in the financial arena was sadly lacking.

Derivatives

forgiver

noun

He writes that ‘the ideal end-result of forgiveness is the restoration of the original relationship between the offender and the forgiver.’
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘All my life I've been taught to forgive’ Jamie pauses ‘that forgiveness is in the forgiver, but I cant.’
- Finally, forgivers discover that they are free - free from resentment, anger, fear and hostility.
- High forgivers seemed more empathetic and warm, expressing more positive emotions towards others - including those who hurt them.
- They might identify either the partner or another person as the forgiver.

Origin

Old English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give.

Rhymes

give, live, misgive, outlive, shiv, sieve, spiv, Viv

Definition of forgive in US English:

forgive

verbfərˈɡɪvfərˈɡiv

[with object]

1Stop feeling angry or resentful toward (someone) for an offense, flaw, or mistake.
原谅，饶恕，宽恕（某人）
I don't think I'll ever forgive David for the way he treated her
大卫如此对待她，我想我永远也不会原谅他的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Arlene always said I could forgive anyone for anything if they intrigued me enough.
- You could forgive her for anything because of her passion for journalism.
- Love was not supposed to run this deep or feel this right, as though he could do anything and she would forgive him.
- George forgave me for my mistake at the time, so there was no ill will.
- So yes, I will take you back, and I will forgive you for your mistake, and I have missed you so much.
- I try to forgive myself first of all, and then I ask the other person with whom I'm angry to forgive me as well.
- Fans will forgive players anything as long as they wear their team's shirt with pride.
- In any case, such is the pace and brilliance of the narrative that one feels that one can forgive the author almost anything.
- The woman's nose finally stopped hurting when she truly forgave her father.
- He asked Russians to forgive him for his mistakes and failing to realize their dreams after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- But he had never truly been in love before, either, so we will forgive him his mistakes as well.
- Readers will forgive you anything except your uncomplicated success.
- At first, Julie had turned her back on him, too angry to forgive him but slowly he had acquired her trust, her love.
- She desperately wanted to forgive him and stop him from going, but her pride got in the way.
- Then we will never beat a child, but forgive him for his mistakes.
- He will have to forgive you and stop being a parole officer, or you'll have to call it a day.
- He wanted a girlfriend who loved him so much that she would easily forgive him for anything.
- Still, he's my only brother, and I tend to forgive him anything.
- He wasn't sure if she'd forgive him for his angry words very quickly, but she'd get over it and this would help.
- She had abandoned him, he thought, because she could not live in a world that would not forgive her for her mistakes.
Synonyms
pardon, excuse, exonerate, absolve, acquit, let off, grant an amnesty to, amnesty
1. 1.1usually be forgiven Stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone for (an offense, flaw, or mistake)
  原谅，饶恕，宽恕（某人）
  no object he was not a man who found it easy to forgive and forget
  他从来都没有觉得不念旧恶是件容易的事。
  they are not going to pat my head and say all is forgiven
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, when you get rid of Christianity, you don't get rid of the conviction of sin and judgment, you merely get rid of any hope of forgiving the sin or tempering the judgment.
  At the same time, as we confess our sins, let us forgive the faults committed by others toward us.
  According to the Talmud the ribbon stopped turning white in the year 30 A.D. So this showed God was no longer forgiving the sins of Israel by means of the scapegoat.
  The cross in Mark does not function as the means through which Jesus forgives sins.
  I think God will more readily forgive our sins against him, whom we cannot see, than against our fellow humans, whom we do see.
  Because he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more.
  Certainly the American electorate has forgiven the sins of those who tried to avoid the war.
  Christ has brought believers from darkness into a kingdom of light and forgiven their sins absolutely and without question.
  We are able to acknowledge horrendous scenarios, justify our errors, and forgive our mistakes by making a situation light-hearted.
  Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again?
  At the end of the American Civil War, for example, President Lincoln forgave many crimes that might legitimately have been prosecuted.
  The other guests began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’
  His last wish was for you to know all is forgiven, come home.
  He told people to be honest whatever the cost, promised them eternal life without sorrow or pain and said he could forgive sin.
  The roots of the idea, however, lie not in forgiving the sin committed by human beings, but in protecting them from evil done to them.
  The grace of God is not simply a holy hypodermic whereby my sins are forgiven.
  Just as he forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, so he continues his work of healing and salvation today through the sacrament.
  The revelation of this book is from Allah, exalted in power, full of knowledge, who forgives sin, accepts repentance, is strict in punishment, and has a long reach in all things.
  He could not do it because no man rightly can forgive the sins he has committed against others.
  I've learned that God has been showing me to forgive myself, because it's in the Bible that God - in the Old Testament and in the New - that God forgives sins for those who come to him through faith in Christ.
2. 1.2 Cancel (a debt)
  免除（债务）
  he proposed that their debts should be forgiven
  他提议免除他们的债务。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Besides having faulty laws and courts, governments block debt workouts by forgiving debts of companies deemed too big or prestigious to fail.
  We can forgive the debts of Third World dictatorships, but these guys will run it up again and pocket the dough.
  Several major publishers donated books, and forgave debts or extended credit.
  Would it make a difference if our national debt were suddenly forgiven in full?
  A number of other countries have already forgiven their debts to you, be they government to government or otherwise.
  Such is the divine compassion: it heals and feeds, forgives huge debts, nurses hurt bodies back to health and welcomes home sinners, restoring them to a place of honor.
  I can either shut you down or I can forgive some debts, and even give you some operating money.
  As a general rule, this money doesn't help the poor, and forgiving the debt is not a gesture of kindness to the neediest people in the world.
  Unless some of this debt is forgiven, they will be paying in perpetuity.
  Whatever debt is forgiven will be reimbursed in some form so that the solvency of the institutions is not threatened.
  We actually have to be giving aid, forgiving debt and rigorously addressing corruption, not just saying oh well you just get yourselves into order and we aren't morally obliged to help until you do.
  Even after we succeed in forgiving the debts of a country, they will get right back into debt if we don't change trading relationships.
  The Government is forgiving debt in one instance.
  Less than two weeks ago, the G8 agreed to forgive the debts of 18 poor nations.
  The president seems to think that this is an opportunity now to forgive that debt and to wipe it clean and move on.
  If all we do is say, we will only loan you the money, then we can never argue to those countries that they've got to forgive those debts.
  He also apparently owed his pusher quite a bit of money, so the prospect of living and the debt being forgiven in exchange for planting the device had been too much for him.
  They would rather inflame the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo than forgive African debt.
  Not answering your phone does not make creditors forgive the debt.
  In a few cases, a substantial discount was given or debt was forgiven outright.
3. 1.3 Used in polite expressions as a request to excuse or regard indulgently one's foibles, ignorance, or impoliteness.
  （礼貌用语）请原谅；请宽容
  you will have to forgive my suspicious mind
  请你原谅我的多疑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment.
  Sanctuary, forgive the expressions, but where on earth are you and what the hell have you done?
  I haven't proof read it or anything, so forgive me if there are grammatical errors and stuff.
  Please forgive my ignorance and realize that the events and happenings are totally fictional.
  This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance.
  Lying about one's age is, forgive the expression, an age-old practice if one is a woman.
  Now, forgive my ignorance, but just who is this director, Franco Zeffirelli?
  At 67 minutes, It may seem a little long, but there's such a surfeit of grooviness you can forgive the odd indulgence.
  Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet?
  This is my first camera with a decent macro, so please forgive my temporary indulgence with this feature.
  Now, most of my travel had been underground on the Tube so you will have to forgive my ignorance; I was yet to cross a bridge in London.
  Now you better be as - forgive the expression - angels until the year closes out.
  Synonyms
  excuse, overlook, disregard, ignore, pass over, make allowances for, allow

Phrases

one could (or may) be forgiven

It would be understandable (if one mistakenly did a particular thing)
可以理解（某种出错）
the arrangements are so complex that you could be forgiven for feeling confused
Example sentencesExamples
- For many, however, the prospect of even trying pink nail varnish on your fingers is a step too far and, by now, you may be forgiven for feeling the only pink that will do is a pink gin.
- Choose a Friday or a Saturday and you may be forgiven for thinking it's now legal to park on double yellow lines after 5pm.
- From the outside, with the sounds of laughing children and chooks and the overgrown fence line, you could be forgiven for mistaking Cubbies for some sort of hippy commune.
- The Great Yorkshire Show, of course, takes great pride in the livestock on display, although with names like British Belgian Blue and Lincoln Red you could be forgiven for mistaking the names of cattle for cheeses.
- Reading recent coverage of events in north Belfast, you could be forgiven for thinking there was something dodgy in the water turning Belfast residents into sectarian monsters.
- For a city that seldom sees snow and is, of course, pancake flat you may be forgiven for thinking that I have quite simply gone mad.
- Given the large crowd which will pack the Fife circuit, and the million-plus viewers who will tune in to watch on terrestrial television, you could be forgiven for thinking there can't be much wrong with motorsport as popular as this.
- Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking that corruption lies at the heart of everything we touch, marred as the past days have been with scandals and sackings, although retribution in the financial arena was sadly lacking.
- Peering through the gloom out of the car window, you could be forgiven for thinking you are the butt of some airline employee's warped sense of humour.
- Having closed last week's column with reference to a man of the cloth, you may be forgiven for starting to wonder if I've recently found God.

Origin

Old English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give.

单词	forgive
释义	Definition of forgive in English: forgive verbforgave, forgiven fəˈɡɪvfərˈɡɪv [with object] 1Stop feeling angry or resentful towards (someone) for an offence, flaw, or mistake. 原谅，饶恕，宽恕（某人） I'll never forgive David for the way he treated her 大卫如此对待她，我想我永远也不会原谅他的。 Example sentencesExamples Arlene always said I could forgive anyone for anything if they intrigued me enough. Readers will forgive you anything except your uncomplicated success. I try to forgive myself first of all, and then I ask the other person with whom I'm angry to forgive me as well. She had abandoned him, he thought, because she could not live in a world that would not forgive her for her mistakes. Fans will forgive players anything as long as they wear their team's shirt with pride. He will have to forgive you and stop being a parole officer, or you'll have to call it a day. In any case, such is the pace and brilliance of the narrative that one feels that one can forgive the author almost anything. He wasn't sure if she'd forgive him for his angry words very quickly, but she'd get over it and this would help. But he had never truly been in love before, either, so we will forgive him his mistakes as well. Still, he's my only brother, and I tend to forgive him anything. The woman's nose finally stopped hurting when she truly forgave her father. So yes, I will take you back, and I will forgive you for your mistake, and I have missed you so much. Then we will never beat a child, but forgive him for his mistakes. He wanted a girlfriend who loved him so much that she would easily forgive him for anything. He asked Russians to forgive him for his mistakes and failing to realize their dreams after the fall of the Soviet Union. George forgave me for my mistake at the time, so there was no ill will. She desperately wanted to forgive him and stop him from going, but her pride got in the way. Love was not supposed to run this deep or feel this right, as though he could do anything and she would forgive him. You could forgive her for anything because of her passion for journalism. At first, Julie had turned her back on him, too angry to forgive him but slowly he had acquired her trust, her love. Synonyms pardon, excuse, exonerate, absolve, acquit, let off, grant an amnesty to, amnesty make allowances for, stop feeling resentful towards, feel no resentment towards, stop feeling malice towards, feel no malice towards, harbour no grudge against, bury the hatchet with let bygones be bygones informal let someone off the hook, go easy on rare exculpate 1.1 No longer feel angry about or wish to punish (an offence, flaw, or mistake) I was willing to forgive all her faults for the sake of our friendship 为了我们的友谊，我愿意原谅她的一切过错。 no object he had never found it easy to forgive and forget 他从来都没有觉得不念旧恶是件容易的事。 Example sentencesExamples At the same time, as we confess our sins, let us forgive the faults committed by others toward us. At the end of the American Civil War, for example, President Lincoln forgave many crimes that might legitimately have been prosecuted. Just as he forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, so he continues his work of healing and salvation today through the sacrament. According to the Talmud the ribbon stopped turning white in the year 30 A.D. So this showed God was no longer forgiving the sins of Israel by means of the scapegoat. However, when you get rid of Christianity, you don't get rid of the conviction of sin and judgment, you merely get rid of any hope of forgiving the sin or tempering the judgment. Because he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more. Christ has brought believers from darkness into a kingdom of light and forgiven their sins absolutely and without question. The other guests began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’ We are able to acknowledge horrendous scenarios, justify our errors, and forgive our mistakes by making a situation light-hearted. The revelation of this book is from Allah, exalted in power, full of knowledge, who forgives sin, accepts repentance, is strict in punishment, and has a long reach in all things. I've learned that God has been showing me to forgive myself, because it's in the Bible that God - in the Old Testament and in the New - that God forgives sins for those who come to him through faith in Christ. Certainly the American electorate has forgiven the sins of those who tried to avoid the war. The roots of the idea, however, lie not in forgiving the sin committed by human beings, but in protecting them from evil done to them. The cross in Mark does not function as the means through which Jesus forgives sins. Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again? His last wish was for you to know all is forgiven, come home. He could not do it because no man rightly can forgive the sins he has committed against others. The grace of God is not simply a holy hypodermic whereby my sins are forgiven. I think God will more readily forgive our sins against him, whom we cannot see, than against our fellow humans, whom we do see. He told people to be honest whatever the cost, promised them eternal life without sorrow or pain and said he could forgive sin. 1.2 Cancel (a debt) 免除（债务） he proposed that their debts should be forgiven 他提议免除他们的债务。 Example sentencesExamples He also apparently owed his pusher quite a bit of money, so the prospect of living and the debt being forgiven in exchange for planting the device had been too much for him. As a general rule, this money doesn't help the poor, and forgiving the debt is not a gesture of kindness to the neediest people in the world. A number of other countries have already forgiven their debts to you, be they government to government or otherwise. Less than two weeks ago, the G8 agreed to forgive the debts of 18 poor nations. Would it make a difference if our national debt were suddenly forgiven in full? Even after we succeed in forgiving the debts of a country, they will get right back into debt if we don't change trading relationships. If all we do is say, we will only loan you the money, then we can never argue to those countries that they've got to forgive those debts. Not answering your phone does not make creditors forgive the debt. In a few cases, a substantial discount was given or debt was forgiven outright. They would rather inflame the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo than forgive African debt. Several major publishers donated books, and forgave debts or extended credit. We can forgive the debts of Third World dictatorships, but these guys will run it up again and pocket the dough. The Government is forgiving debt in one instance. Unless some of this debt is forgiven, they will be paying in perpetuity. Whatever debt is forgiven will be reimbursed in some form so that the solvency of the institutions is not threatened. We actually have to be giving aid, forgiving debt and rigorously addressing corruption, not just saying oh well you just get yourselves into order and we aren't morally obliged to help until you do. The president seems to think that this is an opportunity now to forgive that debt and to wipe it clean and move on. Such is the divine compassion: it heals and feeds, forgives huge debts, nurses hurt bodies back to health and welcomes home sinners, restoring them to a place of honor. Besides having faulty laws and courts, governments block debt workouts by forgiving debts of companies deemed too big or prestigious to fail. I can either shut you down or I can forgive some debts, and even give you some operating money. 1.3 Used in polite expressions as a request to excuse one's foibles, ignorance, or impoliteness. （礼貌用语）请原谅；请宽容 you will have to forgive my suspicious mind 请你原谅我的多疑。 Example sentencesExamples At 67 minutes, It may seem a little long, but there's such a surfeit of grooviness you can forgive the odd indulgence. Sanctuary, forgive the expressions, but where on earth are you and what the hell have you done? So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment. I haven't proof read it or anything, so forgive me if there are grammatical errors and stuff. Please forgive my ignorance and realize that the events and happenings are totally fictional. Now, most of my travel had been underground on the Tube so you will have to forgive my ignorance; I was yet to cross a bridge in London. Now, forgive my ignorance, but just who is this director, Franco Zeffirelli? Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet? Now you better be as - forgive the expression - angels until the year closes out. Lying about one's age is, forgive the expression, an age-old practice if one is a woman. This is my first camera with a decent macro, so please forgive my temporary indulgence with this feature. This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance. Synonyms excuse, overlook, disregard, ignore, pass over, make allowances for, allow condone, let go, let pass, sanction, turn a blind eye to, turn a deaf ear to, wink at, connive at, blink at, indulge, tolerate rare extenuate Phrases one could (or may) be forgiven for doing something It would be understandable if one mistakenly did a particular thing. 可以理解（某种出错） with the plaster palm trees, you could be forgiven for thinking you were on Hollywood Boulevard 有那么多石膏棕榈树，即使你误以为你是走在好莱坞大道上也是可以理解的。 Example sentencesExamples Having closed last week's column with reference to a man of the cloth, you may be forgiven for starting to wonder if I've recently found God. Peering through the gloom out of the car window, you could be forgiven for thinking you are the butt of some airline employee's warped sense of humour. Choose a Friday or a Saturday and you may be forgiven for thinking it's now legal to park on double yellow lines after 5pm. Reading recent coverage of events in north Belfast, you could be forgiven for thinking there was something dodgy in the water turning Belfast residents into sectarian monsters. For a city that seldom sees snow and is, of course, pancake flat you may be forgiven for thinking that I have quite simply gone mad. Given the large crowd which will pack the Fife circuit, and the million-plus viewers who will tune in to watch on terrestrial television, you could be forgiven for thinking there can't be much wrong with motorsport as popular as this. For many, however, the prospect of even trying pink nail varnish on your fingers is a step too far and, by now, you may be forgiven for feeling the only pink that will do is a pink gin. From the outside, with the sounds of laughing children and chooks and the overgrown fence line, you could be forgiven for mistaking Cubbies for some sort of hippy commune. The Great Yorkshire Show, of course, takes great pride in the livestock on display, although with names like British Belgian Blue and Lincoln Red you could be forgiven for mistaking the names of cattle for cheeses. Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking that corruption lies at the heart of everything we touch, marred as the past days have been with scandals and sackings, although retribution in the financial arena was sadly lacking. Derivatives forgiver noun He writes that ‘the ideal end-result of forgiveness is the restoration of the original relationship between the offender and the forgiver.’ Example sentencesExamples ‘All my life I've been taught to forgive’ Jamie pauses ‘that forgiveness is in the forgiver, but I cant.’ Finally, forgivers discover that they are free - free from resentment, anger, fear and hostility. High forgivers seemed more empathetic and warm, expressing more positive emotions towards others - including those who hurt them. They might identify either the partner or another person as the forgiver. Origin Old English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give. Rhymes give, live, misgive, outlive, shiv, sieve, spiv, Viv verb.1 phr. Definition of forgive in US English: forgive verbfərˈɡɪvfərˈɡiv [with object] 1Stop feeling angry or resentful toward (someone) for an offense, flaw, or mistake. 原谅，饶恕，宽恕（某人） I don't think I'll ever forgive David for the way he treated her 大卫如此对待她，我想我永远也不会原谅他的。 Example sentencesExamples Arlene always said I could forgive anyone for anything if they intrigued me enough. You could forgive her for anything because of her passion for journalism. Love was not supposed to run this deep or feel this right, as though he could do anything and she would forgive him. George forgave me for my mistake at the time, so there was no ill will. So yes, I will take you back, and I will forgive you for your mistake, and I have missed you so much. I try to forgive myself first of all, and then I ask the other person with whom I'm angry to forgive me as well. Fans will forgive players anything as long as they wear their team's shirt with pride. In any case, such is the pace and brilliance of the narrative that one feels that one can forgive the author almost anything. The woman's nose finally stopped hurting when she truly forgave her father. He asked Russians to forgive him for his mistakes and failing to realize their dreams after the fall of the Soviet Union. But he had never truly been in love before, either, so we will forgive him his mistakes as well. Readers will forgive you anything except your uncomplicated success. At first, Julie had turned her back on him, too angry to forgive him but slowly he had acquired her trust, her love. She desperately wanted to forgive him and stop him from going, but her pride got in the way. Then we will never beat a child, but forgive him for his mistakes. He will have to forgive you and stop being a parole officer, or you'll have to call it a day. He wanted a girlfriend who loved him so much that she would easily forgive him for anything. Still, he's my only brother, and I tend to forgive him anything. He wasn't sure if she'd forgive him for his angry words very quickly, but she'd get over it and this would help. She had abandoned him, he thought, because she could not live in a world that would not forgive her for her mistakes. Synonyms pardon, excuse, exonerate, absolve, acquit, let off, grant an amnesty to, amnesty 1.1usually be forgiven Stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone for (an offense, flaw, or mistake) 原谅，饶恕，宽恕（某人） no object he was not a man who found it easy to forgive and forget 他从来都没有觉得不念旧恶是件容易的事。 they are not going to pat my head and say all is forgiven Example sentencesExamples However, when you get rid of Christianity, you don't get rid of the conviction of sin and judgment, you merely get rid of any hope of forgiving the sin or tempering the judgment. At the same time, as we confess our sins, let us forgive the faults committed by others toward us. According to the Talmud the ribbon stopped turning white in the year 30 A.D. So this showed God was no longer forgiving the sins of Israel by means of the scapegoat. The cross in Mark does not function as the means through which Jesus forgives sins. I think God will more readily forgive our sins against him, whom we cannot see, than against our fellow humans, whom we do see. Because he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more. Certainly the American electorate has forgiven the sins of those who tried to avoid the war. Christ has brought believers from darkness into a kingdom of light and forgiven their sins absolutely and without question. We are able to acknowledge horrendous scenarios, justify our errors, and forgive our mistakes by making a situation light-hearted. Even if the mistakes are forgiven, can one forgive the repetition of the same mistakes over and over again? At the end of the American Civil War, for example, President Lincoln forgave many crimes that might legitimately have been prosecuted. The other guests began to say among themselves, ‘Who is this who even forgives sins?’ His last wish was for you to know all is forgiven, come home. He told people to be honest whatever the cost, promised them eternal life without sorrow or pain and said he could forgive sin. The roots of the idea, however, lie not in forgiving the sin committed by human beings, but in protecting them from evil done to them. The grace of God is not simply a holy hypodermic whereby my sins are forgiven. Just as he forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, so he continues his work of healing and salvation today through the sacrament. The revelation of this book is from Allah, exalted in power, full of knowledge, who forgives sin, accepts repentance, is strict in punishment, and has a long reach in all things. He could not do it because no man rightly can forgive the sins he has committed against others. I've learned that God has been showing me to forgive myself, because it's in the Bible that God - in the Old Testament and in the New - that God forgives sins for those who come to him through faith in Christ. 1.2 Cancel (a debt) 免除（债务） he proposed that their debts should be forgiven 他提议免除他们的债务。 Example sentencesExamples Besides having faulty laws and courts, governments block debt workouts by forgiving debts of companies deemed too big or prestigious to fail. We can forgive the debts of Third World dictatorships, but these guys will run it up again and pocket the dough. Several major publishers donated books, and forgave debts or extended credit. Would it make a difference if our national debt were suddenly forgiven in full? A number of other countries have already forgiven their debts to you, be they government to government or otherwise. Such is the divine compassion: it heals and feeds, forgives huge debts, nurses hurt bodies back to health and welcomes home sinners, restoring them to a place of honor. I can either shut you down or I can forgive some debts, and even give you some operating money. As a general rule, this money doesn't help the poor, and forgiving the debt is not a gesture of kindness to the neediest people in the world. Unless some of this debt is forgiven, they will be paying in perpetuity. Whatever debt is forgiven will be reimbursed in some form so that the solvency of the institutions is not threatened. We actually have to be giving aid, forgiving debt and rigorously addressing corruption, not just saying oh well you just get yourselves into order and we aren't morally obliged to help until you do. Even after we succeed in forgiving the debts of a country, they will get right back into debt if we don't change trading relationships. The Government is forgiving debt in one instance. Less than two weeks ago, the G8 agreed to forgive the debts of 18 poor nations. The president seems to think that this is an opportunity now to forgive that debt and to wipe it clean and move on. If all we do is say, we will only loan you the money, then we can never argue to those countries that they've got to forgive those debts. He also apparently owed his pusher quite a bit of money, so the prospect of living and the debt being forgiven in exchange for planting the device had been too much for him. They would rather inflame the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo than forgive African debt. Not answering your phone does not make creditors forgive the debt. In a few cases, a substantial discount was given or debt was forgiven outright. 1.3 Used in polite expressions as a request to excuse or regard indulgently one's foibles, ignorance, or impoliteness. （礼貌用语）请原谅；请宽容 you will have to forgive my suspicious mind 请你原谅我的多疑。 Example sentencesExamples So far as legal aid is concerned, would your Lordship forgive my ignorance, I still have to ask for detail, an order for detailed assessment. Sanctuary, forgive the expressions, but where on earth are you and what the hell have you done? I haven't proof read it or anything, so forgive me if there are grammatical errors and stuff. Please forgive my ignorance and realize that the events and happenings are totally fictional. This may be a stupid question, but please forgive my ignorance. Lying about one's age is, forgive the expression, an age-old practice if one is a woman. Now, forgive my ignorance, but just who is this director, Franco Zeffirelli? At 67 minutes, It may seem a little long, but there's such a surfeit of grooviness you can forgive the odd indulgence. Also, forgive my ignorance here, but has anyone taken prisoner and sent to Cuba been charged yet? This is my first camera with a decent macro, so please forgive my temporary indulgence with this feature. Now, most of my travel had been underground on the Tube so you will have to forgive my ignorance; I was yet to cross a bridge in London. Now you better be as - forgive the expression - angels until the year closes out. Synonyms excuse, overlook, disregard, ignore, pass over, make allowances for, allow Phrases one could (or may) be forgiven It would be understandable (if one mistakenly did a particular thing) 可以理解（某种出错） the arrangements are so complex that you could be forgiven for feeling confused Example sentencesExamples For many, however, the prospect of even trying pink nail varnish on your fingers is a step too far and, by now, you may be forgiven for feeling the only pink that will do is a pink gin. Choose a Friday or a Saturday and you may be forgiven for thinking it's now legal to park on double yellow lines after 5pm. From the outside, with the sounds of laughing children and chooks and the overgrown fence line, you could be forgiven for mistaking Cubbies for some sort of hippy commune. The Great Yorkshire Show, of course, takes great pride in the livestock on display, although with names like British Belgian Blue and Lincoln Red you could be forgiven for mistaking the names of cattle for cheeses. Reading recent coverage of events in north Belfast, you could be forgiven for thinking there was something dodgy in the water turning Belfast residents into sectarian monsters. For a city that seldom sees snow and is, of course, pancake flat you may be forgiven for thinking that I have quite simply gone mad. Given the large crowd which will pack the Fife circuit, and the million-plus viewers who will tune in to watch on terrestrial television, you could be forgiven for thinking there can't be much wrong with motorsport as popular as this. Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking that corruption lies at the heart of everything we touch, marred as the past days have been with scandals and sackings, although retribution in the financial arena was sadly lacking. Peering through the gloom out of the car window, you could be forgiven for thinking you are the butt of some airline employee's warped sense of humour. Having closed last week's column with reference to a man of the cloth, you may be forgiven for starting to wonder if I've recently found God. Origin Old English forgiefan, of Germanic origin, related to Dutch vergeven and German vergeben, and ultimately to for- and give. verb.1 phr.
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