1with object Cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful.

17％的观众说骂人的脏话使他们听着觉得不舒服。

1. 1.1 Be displeasing or cause problems to.
   the smell of ash offended him

   他不吸烟，所以烟灰的味道让他不快。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • This provides a lock for those who must use it or simply prefer to use it without offending the sensibilities of those who do not.
   • Mr Webster cut the oats and other offending foods out of his diet - and his sneezing was reduced dramatically.
   • Top offending foods identified were, in alphabetical order, barley, beef, chicken, lamb, potato, rice, soya and wheat.
   • I must first off say that I am completely offended by your good looks.
   • He concluded that 52 per cent of sufferers had reported a significant reduction of their symptoms after changing their diet to remove offending foods from their diets.
   • If your sensibilities are easily offended, you have no business attempting to work in a creative collaborative situation.
   • But as much as such low-end food might offend my culinary sensibilities, I can drive right by.
   • Patients identify offending foods by common names such as lobster, as opposed to the species names.
   • A spokeswoman told the newspaper that offending sections of the site had been removed and apologised for any offence caused.
   • To them if a practice offends their subjective sensibilities it must be unconstitutional.
   • I am also offended at the waste of food in America, especially by young people.
   • First I deciphered the most offending foods in the dish.
   • The smell offended her nose a bit more then she would have liked.
   • They eat seafood and vegetables only; reportedly, the mere smell of pork offends their delicate senses.
   • Call me rigidly European, but it offends my sense of food order.
   • Methadone is not a magic bullet that removes all offending behaviour.
   • Food which offends taste will assuredly offend the stomach.
   • Food allergies are untreatable, and people with these allergies must avoid offending foods, which can be impossible.
   • The smell of burning flesh still offended his nostrils, but he ignored it.
   • We had not originally envisaged being concerned with offending behaviour per se nor with offenders.

   Synonyms

   displease, be displeasing to, be distasteful to, be disagreeable to, be offensive to, cause offence to, upset, put off, disgust, repel, revolt, be repugnant to, repulse, turn someone's stomach, sicken, nauseate, make sick, make someone's gorge rise

   informal turn off

   North American informal gross out

2no object Commit an illegal act.

一小撮屡次犯罪的死硬年轻罪犯。

1. 2.1 Break a commonly accepted rule or principle.
   违反（常规）
   those activities which offend against public order and decency

   那些违反了公共秩序和行为准则的活动。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The code requires us not to broadcast material which offends against good taste or is offensive to public feeling.
   • Must he also offend against the rule of law by introducing a new form of detention without trial?
   • Disjunctive properties offend against the principle that a genuine property is identical in its different particulars.
   • Because, in my submission, it then offends against the principle that where the duties are pre-eminently spiritual certain presumptions arise.
   • This was wrong, not only because it offended against the principle of equality but because in practice many women did have dependents.
   • To maintain law and order, the judges have, and must have, power at once to deal with those who offend against it.
   • They are laws which offend against the principle of autonomy and they are laws which place both doctors and patients at risk.
   • The plaintiffs attacked this plea on the grounds that it offended against the repetition rule.
   • However, being politically disposed to one point of view on an issue did not necessarily offend against the rules of natural justice.
   • He said that the question the judge put to the jury was improper and offended against the principle of random selection of the jury.
   • There are occasions when closed courts can be justified, although they offend against the principle that justice must be seen to be done.
   • His submission in this context was that the scheme offended against elementary principles of public law.
   • An authentic choice is likely to offend against the rules established by them.
   • For one thing, it offends against the principle that deterrent punishment must be kept to the effective minimum.
   • These passages clearly offend against a number of the principles I have listed above.
   • The law was first amended in 1914 so that soldiers could leave Parliament and not offend against the absence rules.
   • If a state's laws offend against the Constitution, the Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional.
   • Evidence so admitted does not offend against the general rule.
   • It is limited to cases where enforcement of the copyright would offend against the policy of the law.
   • The alleged crimes offend against the laws of all nations.