absolve

英 [əbˈzɒlv]

美 [əbˈzɑːlv]

v.  宣告…无罪; 判定…无责; 赦免…的罪

过去分词：absolved　过去式：absolved　现在分词：absolving　第三人称单数：absolves　

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BNC.14557 / COCA.17031

牛津词典

verb

• 宣告…无罪；判定…无责
  to state formally that sb is not guilty or responsible for sth
  1. The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident.
     法院宣告他对该事故不负任何责任。
• 赦免…的罪
  to give absolution to sb
  1. I absolve you from all your sins.
     我赦免你所有的罪过。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 免除…的过失;解除…的责任
  If a report or investigationabsolvessomeone from blame or responsibility, it formally states that he or she is not guilty or is not to blame.
  1. A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
     警方昨天的调查廓清了其在此事件中的任何责任。
  2. ...the inquiry which absolved the soldiers.
     宣告士兵们并无任何过失的调查

英英释义

verb

• let off the hook
  1. I absolve you from this responsibility
  Synonym:justifyfree
• grant remission of a sin to
  1. The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's
  Synonym:shrive

双语例句

• Co-operation, integration, call it what you will, does not absolve individual governments of responsibility.
  合作、一体化随便你怎么称呼都无法免除单个政府的责任。
• But I can't absolve your despair.
  但是我不能消除你的绝望。
• After the incredible showing of resolve and composure during the Bin laden episode, I do not doubt that he is steering the course to absolve our debt to China.
  在处理本拉登的事上，令人难以置信的表现出决心和沉着，我并不怀疑他会到中国宣布免除我们的债务。
• The elements of weakness which mark every person cannot absolve me from the burdens and blessings of responsibility for myself and to others.
  每个人都有不足之处，但我为自己与他人排忧解难和祈求祝福的责任并不能因此免除。
• A police investigation yesterday absolved the police of all blame in the incident.
  警方昨天的调查廓清了其在此事件中的任何责任。
• Alerting your boss to a problem via email doesn't absolve you of all responsibility for it.
  用发电子邮件的方式提醒上司某个问题并不会免除你对此事的所有责任。
• Such economic unilateralism and I do not intend here to absolve China or Germany from their responsibilities sits uneasily with the multilateral engagement that is supposed to be at the heart of Mr Obama's foreign policy.
  这种经济单边主义在这里我不想为中国或德国开脱责任与理应成为奥巴马外交政策核心的多边接触策略不协调。
• They have chosen to project all their sins on to him in the hope that when he goes it will absolve them, said Lord Foulkes.
  他们选择把自己的罪孽都投射到他身上，希望在他离开时，他们将得到赦免，福克斯勋爵（LordFoulkes）表示。
• This cannot absolve you from all responsibility.
  这并不能解除你的全部责任。
• Ensuring control over outsourced processes shall not absolve the organization to the responsibility of conformity to all customer requirements.
  确保控制外包过程不能免除组织对符合顾客所有要求的职责。