Offence

(n.) See Offense.

(n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.

(n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.

(n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.

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• Don't be uneasy if I am a little late--I must be careful not to give offence by leaving them too soon. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I can't think, Amy, what has given Chivery offence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Forgive my offence, for it carries its punishment with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In dancing attendance at the various offices, I was always treated, more or less, as if it was a very bad offence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• No offence, I hope, miss. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If Mr. Bounderby had ever know'd me right—if he'd ever know'd me at aw—he would'n ha' took'n offence wi' me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She looked at him from that distance in some trouble, imagining that there might have been an offence in her words. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I am your old lawyer and your old friend, and I may remind you, I am sure, without offence, of the possibility of your marrying Sir Percival Glyde. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Woe unto the world because of offences, but woe unto them through whom the offence cometh. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The two doctors took offence at my obstinacy. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I remember it now with my customary superiority to all feeling of offence. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It was not the bad manners of ignorance; it was the wilful bad manners arising from deep offence. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• His very merits he used as a means of offence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Rachael, will you tell him—for you know how, without offence—that this is freely his, to help him on his way? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Numerous offences had been committed in the neighbourhood; the perpetrators remained undiscovered, and their boldness increased. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Woe unto the world because of offences, but woe unto them through whom the offence cometh. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Have you told Mr Arthur that he mustn't lay offences at his father's door? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I am fast coming to the end of my offences against your cultivated modern taste. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It is appointed against such offences that the offenders shall not be able to forget. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• We have new laws, Evremonde, and new offences, since you were here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The Frenchman is for proportioning punishments to offences. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Her mind returned to Mrs. Elton's offences, and long, very long, did they occupy her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The first evening, only petty offences were tried. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Spites, affronts, offences giv' and took, deadly aggrawations, such like,' answered Riderhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He had given trouble, he had disturbed, he had broke the peace of his lord the king, and for those offences an amercement was thought due. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Everything was forgiven from my heart and soul at that moment; but Amy soon ran up a fresh score of offences, just in her usual way. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Elinor gloried in his integrity; and Marianne forgave all his offences in compassion for his punishment. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Accidents, miseries, and offences, were never to be mentioned before her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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