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 offence [ə'fɛns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 犯罪, 冒犯, 违反, 罪过, 过错, 攻击

[法] 犯法, 罪过, 过错




    offence
    [ noun ]
    1. the action of attacking an enemy

    2. <noun.act>
    3. the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

    4. <noun.group>
    5. a feeling of anger caused by being offended

    6. <noun.feeling>
      he took offence at my question
    7. a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others

    8. <noun.act>
    9. (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

    10. <noun.act>
      a long record of crimes


    Offence \Of*fence"\, n.
    See {Offense}.


    Offense \Of*fense"\, Offence \Of*fence"\, n. [F., fr. L.
    offensa. See {Offend}.]
    1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin,
    an affront or an injury.

    Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised
    again for our justification. --Rom. iv. 25.

    I have given my opinion against the authority of two
    great men, but I hope without offense to their
    memories. --Dryden.

    2. The state of being offended or displeased; anger;
    displeasure; as, to cause offense.

    He was content to give them just cause of offense,
    when they had power to make just revenge. --Sir P.
    Sidney.

    3. A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.]

    Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh! --Matt.
    xviii. 7.

    4. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as
    contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as,
    to go on the offense.
    [PJC]

    5. (Sports) The members of a team who have the primary
    responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who
    have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the
    opposing team from scoring goal.
    [PJC]

    Note: This word, like expense, is often spelled with a c. It
    ought, however, to undergo the same change with
    expense, the reasons being the same, namely, that s
    must be used in offensive as in expensive, and is found
    in the Latin offensio, and the French offense.

    {To take offense}, to feel, or assume to be, injured or
    affronted; to become angry or hostile.

    {Weapons of offense}, those which are used in attack, in
    distinction from those of defense, which are used to
    repel.

    Syn: Displeasure; umbrage; resentment; misdeed; misdemeanor;
    trespass; transgression; delinquency; fault; sin; crime;
    affront; indignity; outrage; insult.

    1. They are highly tolerant of different cultural habits, and will tend not to take offence if you are ignorant of theirs.
    2. It would make it a criminal offence to supply such videos for private use or show them in a public place where children under 18 are admitted.
    3. MEPC may be sticking to the commendable view that diluting net asset values is a heinous offence.
    4. It can fine an ITV company a maximum of 3 per cent of its annual revenue for a first offence and up to 5 per cent for a subsequent transgression.
    5. Dame Iris Murdoch will take no offence if one describes her appearance in terms of elderly grunge.
    6. And the Treasury will have its revenge on those who penetrate its defences by introducing the gilt-edged market to the offence of insider dealing. The legislation seems well designed to secure a higher level of convictions in insider dealing trials.
    7. But later that connection was broken (Britten took offence at some small slight) and the gradual but inexorable decline in his fortunes as a conductor set in. This is a tale alternately saddening and exhilarating to read.
    8. Within the past year there have been two cases of substantial trades taking place in advance of a company announcing a serious deterioration of its profits. At the moment, insider trading is not a criminal offence.
    9. In Pakistan, a recent law has made insulting the prophet a capital offence. Increasingly, it appears, other Moslem countries are adopting the Saudi view that there is no meeting ground between secularism and Islam.
    10. They will serve staggered nine year terms which cannot be renewed or revoked (except for serious venal offence).
    11. He is still puzzled, without wishing to give offence, by the course of her life. No doubt this incident will appear in Vol. II, but it seems to be the central question of this volume.
    12. But if a general offence of fraud were introduced simply as a long-stop, to be used in addition to conspiracy to defraud, some of the objections would drop away.
    13. 'In some countries the local management make it a dismissal offence.
    14. AFTER 20 years' hibernation Robert James Fischer has proved that, whatever powers he has lost, he has not lost the power to cause offence.
    15. Former East German leader Erich Honecker, 79, is charged with the same offence.
    16. HARPERCOLLINS, publisher of Baroness Thatcher's memoirs, intends to report the Daily Mirror to the police because it believes that a criminal offence may have been committed in connection with publication of unauthorised extracts in the paper.
    17. Almost the only offence that does not seem to attract a yellow card is waving your hand in the referee's face to demand a yellow card for an opponent. The effect on play can be disastrous.
    18. There, insider dealing could be dealt with under criminal law and as an administrative offence.
    19. For some unspecified offence against the Party, 'I' must undergo the (relatively lenient) punishment of sharing his small apartment with an asylum patient.
    20. Mr Kevin Maxwell and Mr Fuller remain charged with the alleged offence involving Baverische Vereinsbank.
    21. The author James Finn Garner is presumably pulling our leg. It isn't really necessary to go to such lengths to avoid offence across the pond?
    22. Words such as 'insult' and 'offence' have become common currency.
    23. Mr Kohler did not disclose a definition of this offence, but warned that penalties would be tough, ranging from fines to imprisonment. A set of new rules designed to encourage disclosure and transparency on the German equity markets.
    24. In Britain, the Consumer Protection Act requires that any specific safety standards are applied to a product. It is an offence to sell goods that do not comply either with specific safety regulations or with general safety requirements.
    25. They could also add a rider that an offence committed in the 'penalty' area of the defensive side's 22 should result in a penalty in front of the posts.
    26. It is, therefore, ridiculous to assume that he was making policy on the hoof, which seems to have been the reflex reaction in European capitals last Friday. This was not Sir Leon's first offence.
    27. He said anyone found guilty of committing such an offence under the animal protection act could be fined up to $4,000 or be jailed for five years or get both penalties.
    28. On a more mundane level, Unilever has had to make spitting a sacking offence in its ice cream factory to curb the Chinese habit.
    29. The Commission for Racial Equality has so far failed to persuade the government to create a new offence of racial violence.
    30. Money laundering is a criminal offence in Switzerland and many other countries. Mr Jann-Corrodi said that if the case were to succeed, the bank itself would be responsible, not just one or more of its officers.
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