venial

详细用法

Venial 是一个形容词，用来描述错误、过失或罪行等的性质。下面是关于 “venial” 的详细用法：

1. Venial sin – 可宽恕的罪过 Venial sin 指的是轻微的罪过，通常不会导致灵魂永远沉沦。在天主教教义中，它与致命罪过（mortal sin）相对。
2. Venial offense – 可宽恕的过失 Venial offense 指的是轻微的过失或错误，通常不会造成严重后果或引发严厉的惩罚。
3. Venial mistake – 可宽恕的错误 Venial mistake 指的是轻微的错误，通常不会带来严重的后果或被严厉地批评。
4. Venial fault – 可宽恕的过失 Venial fault 指的是轻微的过失或缺点，通常不会引起严重的后果或受到严厉的指责。
5. Venial offense against etiquette – 违反礼仪的轻微过失 Venial offense against etiquette 指的是轻微违反礼仪的过失，通常不会被认为是严重的不当行为。

总的来说，”venial” 表示一种轻微的、可宽恕的性质，通常用来描述不严重或不重大的错误、过失或罪行。与严重的罪过（mortal sin）相对，venial 表示一种较小的程度，常常可以通过宽恕或轻微的惩罚来解决。

常见短语

1. Venial sin – 可宽恕的罪过
2. Venial offense – 可宽恕的过失
3. Venial mistake – 可宽恕的错误
4. Venial fault – 可宽恕的过失
5. Venial offense against etiquette – 违反礼仪的轻微过失
6. Commit a venial sin – 犯了一宗可宽恕的罪过
7. Pardon a venial offense – 宽恕一个可宽恕的过失
8. Overlook a venial mistake – 忽视一个可宽恕的错误
9. Forgive a venial fault – 宽恕一个可宽恕的过失
10. Tolerate venial offenses – 容忍可宽恕的过失

这些短语和表达展示了 “venial” 在不同上下文中的用法。它们强调了轻微、可宽恕和不严重的性质，通常不会导致严重的后果或受到严厉的惩罚。

深度学习

venial (VEEN ee uhl) Deriving from the Latin word for “forgiveness,” this adjective is used within the Roman Catholic church to describe a sin that is, roughly speaking, “minor,” “easily forgivable.” Like all the other words in this list, it’s also used figuratively, here to mean “unfortunate but not terribly offensive.”

• “Okay, Tonya, I’ll admit I was twenty minutes late for our date,” said Huey, moving from defense to offense, “but don’t you think that’s rather venial compared to your calling up your old boyfriend the minute I went out of town?”
• When his supporters forgave or overlooked many of his venial trans-gressions, Senator Goofball moved slowly but more inevitably to greater breaches of the trust they had placed in him.

——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》

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