"'Allow me to present,' he goes on, 'Senor Miraflores, president of the republic of Anchuria. The senor has generously consented to overlook this outrageous blunder, on condition that we undertake to secure him against the annoyance of public comment. It is a concession on his part to overlook an insult for which he might claim international redress. I think we can gratefully promise him secrecy in the matter.'英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
He got angry as she rode away-angry with himself that he had let her go; and the same half-tender, half-brutal impulse seized him as when he saw her first. This time he yielded. His horse was at hand, and the river not far below was narrow. The bridle-path that led to the Lewallen cabin swerved at one place to a cliff overlooking the river, and by hard riding and a climb of a few hundred feet on foot he could overtake her half-way up the mountain steep.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
The two stepped from the cave, and passed through the rhododendrons till they stood on the cliff overlooking the valley. The rich light lay like a golden mist between the mountains, and through it, far down, the river moaned like the wind of a coming storm.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
In a corner lay a package so insignificant-looking that it had been overlooked, and when she herself had found it she had kept it as a relic. It contained a dozen small white handkerchiefs. She seized them joyfully and ran to the table. She began to arrange them upon the red table-cover, patting and coaxing them into shape with the narrow lace edge curling outward, her Magic working its spells for her as she did it.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"Do you think," Becky faltered once, in a whisper, "do you think it could melt away, miss? Hadn't we better be quick?" And she hastily crammed her sandwich into her mouth. If it was only a dream, kitchen manners would be overlooked.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
fire, and abandoned to her fate, with the crew fastened down in the hold. One small skylight had accidentally been overlooked by the freebooters. The captain discovered it, and making his way through it to the deck, succeeded in putting out the fire, else vessel and sailors would have sunk together, and their fate would never have been known.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Overlooking the New York skyline, a hundred feet in the air, bathed in moonlight?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Okay, I'm gonna overlook that because you're pretty, but maybe we could talk about美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
We'd rent a big suite at The Plaza overlooking the parade, and we'd fill balloons with champagne and--美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Even when the truth might be something we're reluctant to admit... that we still have a great deal to learn... that we sometimes need to ask for help... that we may be overlooking a golden opportunity.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》