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今日短语

 

Give up 停止做一件事

 

 

今日短语

动词搭配 “give up” 的基本意思是 “放弃,停止做某事”,后面可接名词,即 “give up something”;也可以接现在分词,即 “give up doing something”,意思也是 “停止做某事”。

在谈论改掉不良习惯的语境中,“give up” 还有 “戒掉...” 的含义。比如,“to give up smoking 戒烟”。

例句

This year, I'm definitely going to give up smoking.
今年,我一定得把烟给戒掉。

I tried learning to play the guitar, but I didn't like practising so I just gave up.
我试着学弹吉它,但因为不喜欢练习,所以就放弃了。

Once I saw that film about vegetarianism, it was easy to give up eating meat.
在我看了那部讲素食主义的电影之后,放弃吃肉变得很容易。

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