首页pardonpardon的意思

pardon

英 ['pɑːd(ə)n] 美['pɑrdn]

反义词punish

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第三人称单数: pardons;过去式: pardoned;过去分词: pardoned;现在分词: pardoning;

pardon 请原谅，赦免

par,完全的，词源同per-,完全的，-don,给予，词源同donate.即完全的给予，引申词义赦免，免除惩罚，多用于感叹词”pardon me”,请原谅。

pardon: pardon: see date, forgive
pardon (n.): late 13c., "papal indulgence," from Old French pardon, from pardoner "to grant; forgive" (11c., Modern French pardonner), "to grant, forgive," from Vulgar Latin *perdonare "to give wholeheartedly, to remit," from Latin per- "through, thoroughly" (see per) + donare "give, present" (see donation).

Meaning "passing over an offense without punishment" is from c. 1300, also in the strictly ecclesiastical sense; sense of "pardon for a civil or criminal offense; release from penalty or obligation" is from late 14c. earlier in Anglo-French. Weaker sense of "excuse for a minor fault" is attested from 1540s.
pardon (v.): mid-15c., "to forgive for offense or sin," from Old French pardoner (see pardon (n.)).
'I grant you pardon,' said Louis XV to Charolais, who, to divert himself, had just killed a man; 'but I also pardon whoever will kill you.' [Marquis de Sade, "Philosophy in the Bedroom"]
Related: Pardoned; pardoning. Pardon my French as exclamation of apology for obscene language is from 1895.

1. It's enough to make you wet yourself, if you'll pardon the expression.: 这足以吓得你尿裤子了，请原谅我这么说。

2. That, if you'll pardon my saying so, is neither here nor there.: 恕我直言，那根本就不重要。

4. "Will you let me open it?"— 'Pardon.' — 'Can I open it.': “我能打开它吗？”——“请再说一遍？”——“我能打开它吗？”