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小词详解 | indulge
indulge 英 [ɪnˈdʌldʒ] 美 [ɪnˈdʌldʒ]
Many were unsure what the word meant, but with the company’s value at a near-all-time high of $1.1trn, and its core social-network advertising business humming away on the back of a pandemic boom, investors were willing to indulge the experiment.
许多人不确定Meta这个词是什么意思,但当时这家公司市值高达1.1万亿美元,接近历史高点,而且其核心的社交网络广告业务在疫情之下蓬勃发展,因此投资者愿意任由扎克伯格搞这个实验。
——《经济学人》To buy your own hype or indulge your own propaganda — to treat your image as reality and close yourself to criticism and critique — is to court disaster.
花钱炒作自己或者沉迷于宣传自己——将自己的形象视为现实,并把自己封闭在批评和批判之外——这将招致灾难。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 允许自己享受……的乐趣
满足愿望
indulge a longing沉湎于业余癖好
indulge one's hobby恣意作种种无聊的猜测
indulge idle conjectures
一味贪图安逸
indulge oneself in delights of leisure我尽情享受了一次长时间的温水浴。
I indulged myself with a long tepid bath.
你喜欢纵酒吗?
Do you indulge?
我不参与无用的闲聊。
I don't indulge in idle gossip.
Then they began to have a few irascible words, when it waxed hotter, both, needless to say, appealing to the listeners who followed the passage of arms with interest so long as they didn't indulge in recriminations and come to blows.
接着他们又恶语相加,火气越来越大。不消说,双方都争取听众站在自己这一边。但是只要他们两个人还没有互骂,以致大打出手,听者就都只是饶有兴味地观望这场舌战而已。
coddle: treat in an indulgent or overprotective way humour: comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be pamper: indulge with every attention, comfort, and kindness; spoil