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indulgence

/in-duhl-juhns/US // ɪnˈdʌl dʒəns //UK // (ɪnˈdʌldʒəns) //

放纵,放任自流,纵容,放任

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.
    • : the state of being indulgent.
    • : indulgent allowance or tolerance.
    • : a catering to someone's mood or whim; humoring: The sick man demanded indulgence as his due.
    • : something indulged in: Her favorite indulgence was candy.
    • : Roman Catholic Church. a partial remission of the temporal punishment, especially purgatorial atonement, that is still due for a sin or sins after absolution.Compare plenary indulgence.
    • : English and Scottish History. a grant by the king to Protestant dissenters and Roman Catholics freeing them from certain penalties imposed, by legislation, because of their religion.
    • : Commerce. an extension, through favor, of time for payment or performance.
v.有主动词 verb
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    in·dul·genced, in·dul·genc·ing.

    • : Roman Catholic Church. to provide with an indulgence: an indulgenced pilgrimage to Rome.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounluxury; gratification
Synonyms
extravagance奢侈,奢华,奢侈浪费,奢侈品kindness仁慈,善良,仁慈的,恩情leniency宽大处理,宽待,宽大,宽恕permissiveness放任自流,允许性,放纵,放任性privilege特权,特许权,特免,特许allowance津贴,补贴,津补贴,补助appeasement绥靖主义,绥靖,安抚,绥靖工作attention注意,关注,注意力,注意事项courtesy礼貌,礼遇,礼节,礼节性endurance耐力,耐久性,耐性,耐心excess过量,过度,过量的,过剩favor赞成,偏爱,宠爱,恩惠fondling抚摸,爱抚,抚弄,抚摩fondness癖好,喜爱,恋情,喜好forbearance隐忍,忍受,忍受力,隐忍不发fulfillment实现,履行,履行职责,完成情况goodwill亲善,亲情,亲善感,亲善的hedonism享乐主义immoderation无理取闹,放肆,放纵,放任自流intemperance酗酒,荒淫无度,放浪形骸,放纵intemperateness温文尔雅,温文尔雅的人,温文尔雅的态度,温文尔雅地lenience宽容性,宽容,宽容度,宽松pampering呵护,宠爱,抚慰,宠辱不惊partiality偏袒,偏私,偏袒性,偏心patience耐心,耐性,耐心的,耐心点petting抚摸,爱抚,抚摩,触摸pleasing赏心悦目,讨好,赏心悦目的,讨人喜欢profligacy挥霍无度,挥霍浪费,挥霍,浪费satiation饱食,饱腹感,饱食主义,饱食度satisfaction满意度,满意,满意程度,满足service服务spoiling溺爱,破坏性,捣乱,宠爱tolerance容忍,容忍度,容忍力,容限toleration宽容,宽容性,容忍,宽容主义understanding理解,了解,理解力,了解情况babying护理,保养,保育,保姆式服务coddling溺爱,呵护,娇惯,宠爱favoring偏向于,倾向于,偏向,赞成gratifying可喜的是,令人欣慰的是,可喜,可喜可贺placating安抚性,安抚性的,安抚,劝慰profligateness暴殄天物,淫乱toadying谄媚,谄媚者,溜须拍马,谄媚的treating治疗,处理,对待,治疗的

Examples

  • After that indulgence, we decided to walk off some calories and took a stroll to Baltimore’s Harbor East neighborhood, about two miles south near the Inner Harbor.

  • Tastemade’s goal was to showcase Castello as an everyday indulgence.

  • She still prefers to serve it as a small single serving because anything more ruins the indulgence.

  • Of course you shouldn’t make choices that will cause financial stress later, but I’d encourage you to lean into indulgence, whatever that means for you.

  • You attend a performance twice a month, an indulgence which marks the passing of the weeks.

  • Three years ago, she moved to New Orleans, where, she says, she encountered a great culture of indulgence.

  • But even still, that little sip of indulgence from a mug or a glass tastes almost just as sweet.

  • The indulgence, however, does not apply to sins that have not yet been committed.

  • Jill also admitted to her past indulgence in the substance at a Led Zeppelin concert.

  • So the general posture of the adult world, in early 1964, was a kind of dismissive indulgence.

  • They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.

  • Hexam watched her with an amused indulgence that in no wise tempered his mounting admiration.

  • One would imagine, to hear these (p. 171) people talk, that smoking was the only selfish indulgence in the world.

  • He glanced up and saw the face of the Bruder watching him with a smile of patient indulgence.

  • Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon.