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relentvi. 1.soften,soften in temper,become tender and com-passionate变软,脾气变得温和,心软。 △1H.VI.3.3.58:“Either she hath bewitched me with her words. / Ornature makes me suddenly relent.” 如果不是她的言语迷惑了我,就是天然的爱国之情使我突然心软了。 △2H.VI.4.4.17: “And could it not enforce them to relent,/ Thatwere unworthy to behold the same?”难道它就不能强制那些根本不配看它的人们心软吗? △2H.VI.4.7.124(117):“And therefore yet relent,and save my life.”所以还是发发慈悲,饶了我的命吧。 △R.III.1.4.266 (256): “Re-lent. and save your souls.”发发慈悲,拯救你们自己的灵魂。2. give up a previous determination or obstinacy回心转意。 △2H.VI.4.8.12(11):“Will ye relent / And yieldto mercy,whilst 't is offered you,/ Or let a rebel leadyou to your deaths?”你们究竟愿意回心转意、接受我们提出的宽赦呢,还是让一个叛徒把你们领向死路? 3. repent后悔。 △Wiv.2.2.32 (30): “I do relent.”我后悔了。 4. give way. comply,yield退让,顺从,服从。 △1H.VI.3.1.107: “Can you,my Lord of Winchester,behold /My sighs and tears,and will not once relent?”温彻斯特大人,难道你能看到我叹息流泪,还不肯退让一步吗? relent[riˈlent]v.变温和 ‖relentless adj.无情的 relentlessly adv.无情地,残酷地,不屈不挠地 |