"You said yesterday that your going to the war and getting wounded wiped out nothing that had gone before. I hope you are not growing morbid about the past. It is not for me to condone it, and yet I know that Mr. Raffles was what he was because he loved danger and adventure, and that you were what you were because you loved Mr. Raffles. But, even admitting it was all. as bad as bad could be, he is dead, and you are punished. The world forgives, if it does not forget.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Who is injured by a steamship company subscribing one or ten hundred thousand dollars to a campaign fund? Whose rights are affected by it? Perhaps its stock holders receive one dollar a share in dividends less than they otherwise would. If they do not complain, who else can do so? But in that election I deprived a million people of rights which belonged to them as absolutely as their houses! You could not say that I had done wrong. Not a word of blame or criticism have you ever uttered to me on that account. If there was an offence, you condoned it!英文原著 · 《Democracy An American Novel》
Surely the admiration of Milton might well seem to the spirit of Chaucer to condone a much greater transgression on his domain than this verbal change -- which to both eye and ear is an unquestionable improvement on the uncouth original.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
THE FIRE-TENDER. There may be too much disposition to condone the crimes of those who have been considered respectable.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
And that worries me because if you can condone something like that, then what's gonna happen when you've been on the road for 40 years?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
- Satisfied? - I feel sorry for Ethel, but I cannot condone her inability美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》