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condone

/kuhn-dohn/US // kənˈdoʊn //UK // (kənˈdəʊn) //

纵容,宽恕,容忍,宽容

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v.有主动词 verb
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    con·doned, con·don·ing.

    • : to disregard or overlook: The government condoned the computer hacking among rival corporations.
    • : to give tacit approval to: By his silence, he seemed to condone their behavior.
    • : to pardon or forgive; excuse: His employers are willing to condone the exaggerations they uncovered in his résumé.
    • : to cause the condonation of; justify the pardoning of.
    • : Law. to forgive or act so as to imply forgiveness of: His spouse condoned his infidelity from the early years of their marriage.

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Examples

  • I don’t condone or condemn recreational use, but if you think “I’ll go to Burning Man and heal my depression by scoring some molly,” you might be disappointed.

  • He later clarified that he didn’t “condone or support the violence and lawlessness that took place.”

  • There is no policy barring an officer from doing what’s shown in the video, but “there is a code of conduct on how we should carry ourselves in public,” Kelly said, adding that the sheriff’s office does not “condone” the deputy’s behavior.

  • “A vote to follow the subcommittee’s … recommendation … is a vote to condone the lapses in good governance and proper diligence that ultimately led to AB 805,” he said.

  • “We do not condone or tolerate verbal or physical abuse of our flight crews, who are responsible for the safety of our passengers,” Mainz said.

  • In an act of corporal punishment that we at the Daily Beast do not condone, Joseph grabbed Him by the ear and “pulled hard.”

  • The union does not under any circumstance condone violence of any kind, including against police officers.

  • On Thursday, Bridenstine responded that he “did not condone” the comments calling for Obama to be executed.

  • The grand intelligent design blueprint surely would not and could not condone such a partition.

  • If you ignore wrongdoing,” said Clohessy, “you condone wrongdoing.

  • Whatever the past had been, Lady Hartledon appeared to condone it; at least she no longer openly resented it to her husband.

  • Their admitted reverence for Sheitan constitutes an abomination which neither Moslem nor Christian can condone.

  • No just-minded person, whatever his sympathies, can condone such unfair and un-British tactics of war.

  • In the study of war we should seek the causes, be impersonal, and neither condone nor accuse.

  • Her uncle is wrapped up in her, and so proud of her being a Duchess that he would condone anything.