◎ 單詞釋義

n.犯罪；過錯；攻擊，冒犯；令人討厭的事物

第三人稱復數：offences

[C]犯規,違法行為,罪行 breaking of a rule or law; illegal act; crime

[U]冒犯 act or cause of upsetting or annoying sb; insult

noun

1. (criminal law) an act punishable by law
usually considered an evil act

e.g. a long record of crimes

Synonym: crimeoffensecriminal offensecriminal offencelaw-breaking

2. the action of attacking an enemy

Synonym: offenseoffensive

3. a lack of politeness
a failure to show regard for others
wounding the feelings or others

Synonym: discourtesyoffenseoffensive activity

4. a feeling of anger caused by being offended

e.g. he took offence at my question

Synonym: umbrageoffense

5. the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

Synonym: offense

The spelling offense is used in American English. The pronunciation /'?fens/ is used for meaning 3. 拼寫offense用于美國英語中。義項3讀作/'?fens/。

1. 違法行為；罪行
An offence is a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment.

e.g. Thirteen people have been charged with treason — an offence which can carry the death penalty...
13人被控犯有叛國罪——一種可處死刑的罪行。
e.g. In Britain the Consumer Protection Act makes it a criminal offence to sell goods that are unsafe.
英國的《消費者保護法》規定銷售不安全物品屬刑事犯罪行為。

2. 冒犯；得罪
Offence or an offence is behaviour which causes people to be upset or embarrassed.

e.g. The book might be published without creating offense...
出版這本書可能不會引起人們的反感。
e.g. Privilege determined by birth is an offence to any modern sense of justice.
與生俱來的特權是對現代公正意識的褻瀆。

3. （體育運動中的）進攻隊，進攻方
In sports such as American football or basketball, the offense is the team which has possession of the ball and is trying to score.

offence的翻譯

e.g. Between plays the coach was talking to the offense in the huddle.
中場時，這位教練對圍攏一圈的進攻隊員進行戰術指導。

4. 冒犯；得罪；惹惱
If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.

e.g. It says the photograph is likely cause distress and offence to the public...
上面說這張照片可能引起公眾的憂慮和反感。
e.g. We have had our differences and I'm sorry if it has caused offence.
我們有過一些分歧，如有得罪我很抱歉。

5. 別見怪；無冒犯之意
Some people say 'no offence' to make it clear that they do not want to upset you, although what they are saying may seem rather rude.

offence的解釋

e.g. Dad, you need a bath. No offence.
爸爸，別見怪，不過你該洗澡了。

6. （常指不必要地）(對…)生氣，(因…)見怪
If someone takes offence at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.

e.g. She never takes offence at anything...
什么事都不會讓她生氣。
e.g. Never had she seen him so tense, so quick to take offence as he had been in recent weeks.
她從未見過他像最近幾周這樣高度緊張，動不動就生氣。

1. 冒犯：使用這個詞可以避免使用其他字眼兒而冒犯(offence)對方. 例如,你使用lover一詞,而對方心里卻一直當作boyfriend/girlfriend的,這種情況下對方就很可能覺得你的說法不妥(inappropriate). 在美國,婚禮和聚會邀請函時常用到這個詞.

n.(名詞)

offence意為“犯法,過錯”,使用范圍比較廣,可指觸犯國法,也可指違反規章制度和任何失禮的言行。這個詞的英式英語拼法是offence,美式英語拼法是offense。

表示“違犯…,犯…罪”時, offence與 against 連用。

offence還可表示“使人不悅的事物”。

☆ 14世紀晚期進入英語，直接源自古法語的ofense，意為侮辱；最初源自拉丁語的offensa，意為冒犯。

以上就是本站詳細整理的詞語offence是什么意思的翻譯解釋，供大家參考一下。