单词 | admit defeat |
释义 | admit defeatadmit defeat STOP DOING somethingto stop trying to do something because you realize you cannot succeed 承认失败,认输 For Haskill, selling the restaurant would be admitting defeat. 对哈斯基尔来说,卖掉餐厅就是承认失败。 Examples from the Corpus admit defeat• After half an hour she had to admit defeat.• He had already summed her up as some one who hated to admit defeat.• He loathed the boot and complained about it constantly, but he wouldn't admit defeat.• Leafy and Obey stayed away for close to an hour, returning at last after midnight to admit defeat.• The Novartis team put up a valiant fight, but admit defeat.• He came wandering towards me, obviously having admitted defeat, and I fell in beside him, companionably in step.• Haskill refuses to admit defeat and sell the restaurant.• To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known. → admit defeat at admit(1) |
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