Absolve

(verb.) let off the hook; 'I absolve you from this responsibility'.

盖尔校对

• A wall is a wall: the presence of it will not do the work of civilization--the absence of it does not absolve anyone from the tasks of social life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is I that absolve you from an engagement which is impossible in our present misery. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I know that it was sincere, and that my wish and aim were to absolve her to herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My good cousin, absolve yourself from that! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I tell you, my dear, _I_ cannot absolve myself from the promises I make to these helpless creatures. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• No--I absolve you of that, he agreed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• No one is absolved from experiment and constant revision. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• From the rest, he was absolved entirely for the time being. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Unless I set my will, unless I absolve myself from the rhythm of life, fix myself and remain static, cut off from living, absolved within my own will. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And yet, said I, smiling, I cannot quite hold myself absolved from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my records. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• J'ai menti plusieurs fois, formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Whether she charged herself with these faults or absolved herself from them, made no difference in the sum-total of her failure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

校对:梅雷迪思