Offend

(v. t.) To strike against; to attack; to assail.

(v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.

(v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.

(v. t.) To transgress; to violate; to sin against.

(v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

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• I did it because I thought it would offend you; but, as you made no objection, I never did it again. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I hardly know what the girl did to offend them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It was furtherest from my desire to hurt or offend you, whom I had hoped to protect and comfort. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Yet there are a thousand ways of helping them, if one only knows how to do it so delicately that it does not offend. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• As though you didn't want to offend any one. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You will not offend me, you know, said Mr. Farebrother, quite unaffectedly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She did not affect modesty, nor appear in the least offended at my intrusion. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The Colonel was so kind--Mr. Crawley might be offended and pay back the money, for which she could get no such good interest anywhere else. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was not good to meet Lord Steyne's eyes for those who had offended him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And she is mortally offended with Mr. Franklin Blake. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It is needless to say that I declined to understand that he was offended with me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Has Chettam offended you--offended you, you know? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He fears he has offended you, and has begged me to ask if you will see him for a few minutes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You had better neglect your relations than run the risk of offending your patroness. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• And was that the head and front of his offending? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The latter, all wild passion; the former, gentle, voluptuous, fearful of shocking or offending me, or frightening away my growing passion. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She could forgive her offending pupil, not her innocent self. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Do not be afraid of offending me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was noticeable that she no longer called the offending lady by her Christian name. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She had learnt to feel my dread of offending him, and she accepted his proposal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This tax, therefore, so far offends against the first of the four maxims above mentioned. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I do not want to vex you; and besides, we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me--' 'How! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The writers of comedy satisfied that almost universal craving for the depreciation of those whose apparent excellence offends our self-love. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It offends 'em. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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