give up
phrasal verbgive up
- to stop trying to do something
投降；认输；放弃 - They gave up without a fight.
他们不战而降。 - She doesn't give up easily.
她不轻易认输。 - I give up—tell me the answer.
我放弃了，把答案告诉我吧。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGive up is used with these nouns as the object:- ambition
- attempt
- authority
- …
- They gave up without a fight.
give somebody up
- (also give up on somebody)to believe that somebody is never going to arrive, get better, be found, etc.
对某人的到来（或康复、能否找到等）不再抱有希望 - There you are at last! We'd given you up.
你终于来了！我们都以为你不来了呢。 - We hadn't heard from him for so long, we'd given him up for dead.
我们这么长时间没有他的音信，都以为他死了。
- There you are at last! We'd given you up.
- to stop having a relationship with somebody
（和某人）断绝关系，分手 - Why don't you give him up?
你为什么不与他一刀两断呢？
- Why don't you give him up?
give something up
- [no passive] to stop doing or having something
停止；中止；放弃；抛弃 - She didn't give up work when she had the baby.
她有孩子后并未放弃工作。 - We'd given up hope of ever having children.
我们已放弃生孩子的希望。 - give up doing something You ought to give up smoking.
你应该戒烟。
- She didn't give up work when she had the baby.
- to spend time on a task that you would normally spend on something else
把（本该做其他事的时间）耗费于 - I gave up my weekend to help him paint his apartment.
我耗费了一个周末帮他粉刷公寓。
- I gave up my weekend to help him paint his apartment.
give something up (to somebody)
- to hand something over to somebody else
把…交给（或让与） - We had to give our passports up to the authorities.
我们得把护照交给当局。 - He gave up his seat to a pregnant woman (= stood up to allow her to sit down).
他把座位让给了一名孕妇。
- We had to give our passports up to the authorities.
give yourself/somebody up (to somebody)
- to offer yourself/somebody to be captured by somebody in authority
自首；投案；投降 - After a week on the run he gave himself up to the police.
他逃跑一周后向警方投案自首了。
- After a week on the run he gave himself up to the police.