| 釋義 |
relentvi.
1.soften,soften in temper,become tender and com-passionate變軟，脾氣變得溫和，心軟。
△1H.VI.3.3.58:“Either she hath bewitched me with her words. / Ornature makes me suddenly relent.” 如果不是她的言語(yǔ)迷惑了我，就是天然的愛國(guó)之情使我突然心軟了。
△2H.VI.4.4.17: “And could it not enforce them to relent,/ Thatwere unworthy to behold the same?”難道它就不能強(qiáng)制那些根本不配看它的人們心軟嗎？
△2H.VI.4.7.124(117):“And therefore yet relent,and save my life.”所以還是發(fā)發(fā)慈悲，饒了我的命吧。
△R.III.1.4.266 (256): “Re-lent. and save your souls.”發(fā)發(fā)慈悲，拯救你們自己的靈魂。2. give up a previous determination or obstinacy回心轉(zhuǎn)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?”你們究竟愿意回心轉(zhuǎn)意、接受我們提出的寬赦呢，還是讓一個(gè)叛徒把你們領(lǐng)向死路？
3. repent后悔。
△Wiv.2.2.32 (30): “I do relent.”我后悔了。
4. give way. comply,yield退讓，順從，服從。
△1H.VI.3.1.107: “Can you,my Lord of Winchester,behold /My sighs and tears,and will not once relent?”溫徹斯特大人，難道你能看到我嘆息流淚，還不肯退讓一步嗎？ relent[ri?lent]v.變溫和
‖relentless adj.無情的
relentlessly adv.無情地，殘酷地，不屈不撓地 |