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If something bad is forgivable, you can see how it happened and you can let it go without a long fight. We use it for slips, sharp words said when someone was tired, a mistake made under pressure. It keeps a human feeling: not only “the rules allow this,” but “a kind person could forgive this.” A small hurt is often forgivable; a planned betrayal is much less often called that. It is close to excusable, but forgivable still has a person in the picture — someone who might forgive. You will also meet unforgivable as the hard opposite.
可以原諒的、情有可原的
組成forgive + -able (can be forgiven). It partly took the place of older pardonable, from Old French.
同家族的字
- forgivethe verb this describing-word is built on
- forgivenessthe noun: the act or gift of forgiving
- unforgivablethe opposite: too wrong to forgive easily
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
forgivableadj
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Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
- It's even forgivable here when the band sometimes sounds as though they've phoned in the Stonesy swagger, because when they're on, the Hellacopters sound like the best garage rock/bar band in the world.
- In retrospect, the misunderstanding about the plan was forgivable […]
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businessfinanceOf a loan, or a portion of it: such that repayment may be deferred for a period, or canceled, by the lender, if the borrower meets certain obligations.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。