| 单词 | give in |
| 释义 | give ingive in phrasal verbphr v a) ACCEPTto finally agree to do or accept something that you had at first opposed, especially because someone has forced or persuaded you to 屈服，让步 Eventually I gave in and accepted the job on their terms. 最后我作出让步，按照他们的条件接受了这份工作。 Bob’s wife went on at him so much that eventually he gave in. 鲍勃的妻子对他不依不饶，他终于屈服了。 to The government refused to give in to their demands. 政府对他们的要求拒不妥协。 b) LOSE A GAME, COMPETITION, OR WARto accept that you are defeated in a game, fight, competition etc 认输；投降 → surrender The rebels were eventually forced to give in. 叛军最后被迫投降。 We will carry on fighting to the end. We will never give in. 我们将战斗到底，决不认输。 c) give something ↔ in British EnglishBrEGIVE to give a piece of work or something you have written to someone in authority 呈交，交上〔作业或文字材料〕 SYN hand in You were supposed to give this work in four days ago. 你四天前就应该把作业交上来了。 Rose decided to give in her notice (=officially say she was going to leave her job). 罗丝决定递交辞呈。 give something ↔ in to All assignments must be given in to your teacher by Friday. 星期五之前必须把所有的作业交给你们老师。 Examples from the Corpus give in• Jenny kept begging me for a new bicycle, and I finally gave in.• Marie's stubborn, and she doesn't give in easily.• In the end, I had to give in to dad -- he's usually right anyway.• The President said he would never give in to demands by terrorists.• You shouldn't always give in to other people -- stick up for yourself more.• I figured if we gave in to them this time, they'd be back for another fight. give to• She was determined not to give in to despair.• Agnes finally gives in to her feelings for the younger man and promises to marry him when she returns to the States.• Her experience convinced her of the dangers of giving in to her oedipal desires.• But she was not going to give in to him.• Miles struggled not to give in to his feelings of anger and hopelessness.• We will never give in to terrorist demands.• She longed to give in to the desire in his eyes and her own body's urging.• Several people took to squatting on the floor with shoes removed, having given in to the weight of their metallic dresses.• Instead, he meekly gave in to them and regularly attended church.• She would not give in to these men.• Angrily she dashed the tears away with the back of one hand, refusing to give in to weakness and self-pity. give in ... notice• Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there, she swiftly gave in her notice. → give in at give1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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