| 单词 | drop out |
| 释义 | drop outdrop out phrasal verbphr v a) SEto no longer do an activity or belong to a group 退出，脱离 The group gets smaller as members move away or drop out. 随着成员搬走或退出，这个团体的规模变小了。 b) to leave a school or university before your course has finished 退学，辍学 → dropout of Bill dropped out of college after his first year. 比尔在大学读完第一年后就辍学了。 c) SSPPPto refuse to take part in ordinary society because you do not agree with its principles 拒绝接受〔传统规范〕，离经叛道 → dropout In the 60s, Leary urged kids to ‘Turn on, tune in and drop out.’ 60年代时，利里鼓励年轻人 “打开心扉，同流脱出” 。 nd) if an Internet connection drops out, it suddenly stops, usually for a short time Examples from the Corpus drop out• He advised young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out".• He was a dropout and a hippy back in the '60s.• A group of young people dropped out and set up a commune in the middle of the forest.• One third of the city's students drop out before graduation.• He dropped out of art college and joined a band.• She decided to drop out of the rat race because she couldn't stand working 60 hours a week.• While kids in the affluent sixties could afford to drop out, things were very different ten years later. drop of• Kelly dropped out of college after one semester.• In extreme cases they can drop out of position. with disastrous results.• Don dropped out of school in June, dashing all hope of be-coming a lawyer.• At 16, Williams dropped out of school to sing in nightclubs and the flourishing dance scene at South Side social clubs.• Many of them drop out of school, too exhausted to study.• You want to drop out of school?• Then, too, his thinking had hardly dropped out of the blue.• In 1988, soon after losing the Illinois primary to George Bush, Dole dropped out of the race.• The survey was conducted March 2-3 before Alexander and Lugar dropped out of the race. → drop out at drop1(20) |
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