abandon
柯林斯词典
1. V-T If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. 拋棄
He claimed that his parents had abandoned him. 他聲稱他的父母拋棄了他。
2. V-T If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished. 中途放棄
The authorities have abandoned any attempt to distribute food in an orderly fashion. 儅侷中途放棄了任何有序地分發食品的嘗試。
3. V-T If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way. 放棄 (想法或思想方式)
Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea. 理性佔了上風，他放棄了該想法。
4. N-UNCOUNT If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave. 放縱[usu 'with' N] [表不滿]
He approached life with reckless abandon–I don't think he himself knew what he was going to do next. 他以不計後果的放縱態度對待生活–我想他自己都不知道他接下來要做什麽。
5. →see also abandoned
6. PHRASE If people abandon ship, they get off a ship because it is sinking. (因船舶下沉而) 棄船
At the captain's order, they abandoned ship. 在船長的命令下，他們棄船離開了。
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abandon /əˈbændən/ (abandoning,abandoned,abandons)
剑桥词典
- If disturbed , the bird may abandon the nest , leaving the chicks to die .
- It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers .
- According to an eyewitness account , the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
- The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital .
- The house had been abandoned for several years before they decided to demolish it.
- Sweden isn't likely ever to abandon its traditional neutrality .
- Pressure to abandon the new motorway is increasing .
- We were unable to get funding and therefore had to abandon the project .
- A lot of farming techniques have been abandoned because they were too labour-intensive .
- Most European countries have abandoned laws that make vagrancy a crime .
abandon verb [T] (LEAVE)
to leave a place , thing, or person , usually for ever離棄；放棄；拋棄；遺棄
We had to abandon the car . 我們不得不棄車而去。
By the time the rebel troops arrived , the village had already been abandoned. 儅叛軍殺到時，村民們已經撤離了村子。
As a baby he was abandoned by his mother . 他在繦褓之中就被母親遺棄了。
We were sinking fast , and the captain gave the order to abandon ship . 我們的船下沉得很快，船長下令棄船。
例句
abandon verb [T] (STOP)
to stop doing an activity before you have finished it中止
The game was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather conditions . 由於天氣狀況太差，比賽進行了一半就停止了。
They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain . 他們被迫中止登山計劃。
The party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament . 該政黨已經廢止了其單方麪裁軍的政策。
例句
abandon yourself to sth
to allow yourself to be controlled completely by a feeling or way of living
放縱；使沉溺於
He abandoned himself to his emotions . 他完全受自己情緒左右。 返回 abandon