grudge
Word family adjectivegrudgefulnoungrudgingadverbgrudginglyverbgrudge
grudge1 /ɡrʌdʒ/ noun [countableC]1 DON'T LIKEFORGIVEa feeling of dislike for someone because you cannot forget that they harmed you in the past 懷恨,怨恨grudge againstIs there anyone who might have had a grudge against her? 有沒有誰可能對她懷恨在心?
Mr Gillis was not normally a man to bear grudges. 吉利斯先生通常不是那種會積怨的人。
I’m not harbouring some secret grudge against you. 我沒有對你暗地裏懷恨在心。
It could be the work of someone with a grudge against the company. 這事可能是某些對公司懷有怨憤的人幹的。
You let nasty little personal grudges creep in. 你就由着怨恨的情緒一點一點滋長。
2. grudge fight/match DSa fight or sports competition between two people who dislike each other a lot 〔打鬥或體育比賽中〕冤家對頭的決鬥/比賽grudge fight/match• Six other players were sin-binned as Britain beat New Zealand 3-2 in a grudge match.• None of the combatants in this grunge grudge match are over 20. n COLLOCATIONSverbshave/hold a grudgeThe police asked if anyone might have had a grudge against the victim.
bear/carry a grudgeWallace said the rumors had been started by someone who bore a grudge against him.
harbour a grudge (=to have a grudge for a long time)He was the sort of person to harbour a grudge for years.
nurse a grudge (=to have a grudge and keep finding reasons for it)She was still nursing a grudge against her grandfather.
adjectivesa personal grudgeIt is known that Ibarra had a personal grudge against Arellanos.
an old/ancient/long-standing grudgeHe said they should celebrate their achievements, not nurse old grudges.
phrasesbear/hold etc no grudgeHe insisted that he held no grudge against Taylor.
grudge2 verb [transitiveT]WILLINGto do or give something very unwillingly 勉強做〔某事〕;勉強給〔某物〕grudge doing somethingI really grudge paying for poor service. 服務很差,我實在是不願意付錢。
grudge somebody somethingI don’t grudge him his success. 我認爲他的成功是應該的。
—grudging adjectiveadj [usually before noun]a grudging apology 不情願的道歉
—grudgingly adverbadvHe grudgingly admitted he’d been wrong. 他勉強承認自己錯了。
grudge• Oliver was grudging about accepting Wickham's innocence.• You don't grudge the outlay when you get a letter like that.• I grudged the time I had to spend doing housework instead of playing.• Mair sometimes grudged the work and time it involved but he knew its importance.• Ada believed that nobody could grudge you the right to complain. Origin grudge2 (1300-1400) Old French grouchier;
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