| 词汇 | condone |
| 释义 | condone verb[ T ] uk /kənˈdəʊn/ us /kənˈdoʊn/ to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong: 宽恕，饶恕;纵容;包容，容忍 If the government is seen to condone violence, the bloodshed will never stop.一旦认定政府纵容暴力，那流血事件就永远不会停止。 Synonym excuse Allowing and permitting admission admit admit of something allow of something allowable authorization authorize consent entrance given the chance/choiceidiom green-light hall pass hospital admission imprimatur liberty relicensure say-so security clearance see your way (clear) to doing somethingidiom sublicence condone | American Dictionarycondone verb[ T ] disapprovingus/kənˈdoʊn/ to ignore or accept behavior that some people consider wrong: I don’t condone such rude behavior. Examples of condonecondone And she seems to condone the absolutely awful usages of the combined pronoun (s/he) and the alternate pronouns. Or to put it another way, having no interest in the present civilization, he could hardly condone that repression which made it possible. In this spontaneous mass reaction thesis, the state's inaction during the violence gets condoned. Nor is it to condone relativism or an "anything goes" posture. In the former case, it may not be clear whether the official is condoning the behavior or simply tolerating it. But the fact that marriages across this divide are never condoned does not mean they do not occur. I'm not condoning what they do by any means. I am far from condoning any such measures; some of my family members suffered greatly during that time. Whereas this conduct might be condoned for men, it did not suit decent women. In other words, we maintain that one can accept pluralism (different versions, partial truths), without thereby condoning all versions and any actions. Providing the liberty to influence decisionmaking also does not condone the display of irritation or distaste at the supposed irresponsibility of the decision made. But to concede this is not to condone every possible way in which survival probabilities might figure into organ allocation policy. Those who succeeded condoned violence and brutality against the population. While public violence between equals was clearly illegal, private violence was, if not condoned, not actively condemned. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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