| 单词 | give up on somebody/something |
| 释义 | give up on somebody/somethinggive up on somebody/something phrasal verbphr v HOPEto stop hoping that someone or something will change or improve 对〔某人或某事〕不抱希望 He’d been in a coma for six months, and doctors had almost given up on him. 他已经昏迷六个月，医生几乎对他不抱希望了。 At that point, I hadn’t completely given up on the marriage. 那个时候，我还没有完全放弃这桩婚姻。 Examples from the Corpus give up on • For that reason Labour planners would not like to give up on a May election until they have to.• She was loyal and intelligent and she never gave up on anything.• Sarah Brady said she hasn't given up on federal legislation.• Even then, Sarah had not given up on her marriage.• Meanwhile John Lawer insists he won't be giving up on his epic adventure or his one-man campaign against three-wheel discrimination.• Kovacs had given up on the pencils and slipped them back into the box.• Around the turn of the century, the Crown gave up on the Quaker colony but then later restored it to Penn. → give up on somebody/something at give1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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