Acquit

(verb.) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; 'The suspect was cleared of the murder charges'.

录入:米尔顿

• I have a business charge to acquit myself of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on either side will be ease to what I now suffer. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• But this does not acquit _him_, Mrs. Weston; and I must say, that I think him greatly to blame. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• This from me may appear to strangers like personal pique, but all who know me will acquit me of having ever, in my life, coveted the society of fools. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I understand and admire this generous anxiety to acquit him, without waiting until his innocence may, or may not, be proved. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Acquit me of impertinent curiosity, my dear Mrs. Bounderby. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I know myself well enough to acquit any one, who does not know me, and still more those who do, from any such intention. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• But she was acquitted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In 1788 Warren Hastings, a second great Indian administrator, was impeached and acquitted (1792). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No; she was acquitted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The event acquitted her of all the fancifulness, and all the selfishness of imaginary complaints. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You are acquitted, Captain Crocker. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A score or so of years ago, that woman was tried at the Old Bailey for murder, and was acquitted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• After all, this was an unexpectedly easy way of acquitting her debt; and had she not reasons of her own for wishing to be civil to Mr. Rosedale? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• And the deeper he went in domesticity the more did the sense of acquitting himself and acting with propriety predominate over any other satisfaction. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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