大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 give offense


释义：

give offense 冒犯；挑衅

例句：


The loud noise of crackers will probably give offense to gods, won't it?

爆竹震耳欲聋的噪声会不会冒犯神灵？



Before the interview to which the applicant comes "talkers talk to their friends and decide what will and won't be told, the audience (applicant) decides what will and will not give offense."

在面试前，申请人来“夸夸其谈者向他们的朋友和决定什么将不会被告知，和观众(申请人)决定什么将会和不会冒犯。”



The speaker says: Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.



The subtext was of an administration effort desperately trying not to give offense to our adversaries.


To the contrary, he has seemed determined not to say anything unpleasant — or that might otherwise give offense to Gorbachev.


To the contrary, he has seemed determined not to say anything unpleasant -- or that might otherwise give offense to Gorbachev.


Pursuant to the Team Obama-approved COIN doctrine, the posture our troops in harm's way in Afghanistan must adopt is one of doing everything possible not to give offense to the Afghans.


Worse yet, in their understandable desire not to give gratuitous offense to Muslims, the U.S. government has repeatedly deferred to those who are most easily and most vocally offended.