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Forgive English Give I Foreign Latin Compound Sense

正面 3622.forgive
英 [fə'gɪv]美 [fɚ'ɡɪv]

背面
释义:
vt. 原谅;免除(债务、义务等)vi. 表示原谅
例句:
1. I can never, ever forgive him. I despise him.我永远不会原谅他。我鄙视他。

1. 晚上睡觉时梦见一匹母马在你边上,这就是噩梦,因为人家梦到的都是美女,而你梦到的母马。2. nightmare ――在晚上梦见了母马向你扑来一定是恶梦 n.恶梦;经常的恐惧
forgive 原谅来自古英语forgiefan, 给予,允许,for-, 完全的,give, 给予,施予。用来翻译法语词pardon, 原谅。后词义由允许过渡到原谅。
forgiveforgive: [OE] Forgive is what is known technically as a ‘calque’ or loan translation – that is, it was created by taking the component parts of a foreign word, translating them literally, and then putting them back together to form a new word. In this case the foreign word was Latin perdōnāre ‘forgive’ (source of English pardon), which was a compound verb formed from per- ‘thoroughly’ and dōnāre ‘give’ (its underlying sense was ‘give wholeheartedly’). These two elements were translated in prehistoric Germanic times and assembled to give *fergeban, from which have come German vergeben, Dutch vergeven, and English forgive.=> giveforgive (v.)Old English forgiefan "give, grant, allow; remit (a debt), pardon (an offense)," also "give up" and "give in marriage" (past tense forgeaf, past participle forgifen); from for-, here probably "completely," + giefan "give" (see give (v.)). The sense of "to give up desire or power to punish" (late Old English) is from use of such a compound as a Germanic loan-translation of Vulgar Latin *perdonare (Old Saxon fargeban, Dutch vergeven, German vergeben "to forgive," Gothic fragiban "to grant;" and see pardon (n.)). Related: Forgave; forgiven; forgiving."

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