quits
/kwɪts/adjective
predic.
- (of two people) on even terms, especially because a debt or score has been settled(两人因偿清债务而)对等的, 抵消的:
I think we're just about quits now, don't you?
我认为我们现在基本两清了, 对吗?
短语
call it quits
1
- agree or acknowledge that terms are now equal, especially on the settlement of a debt(尤指偿清债务后)同意(或承认)对等(或抵消):
take this cheque and we'll call it quits.
你拿走这张支票, 我们就两清了。
1.1
- decide to abandon an activity or venture决定放弃活动(或冒险), 决定退出:
surely, after covering eleven wars, he could be forgiven for calling it quits?
他在经历11场战争之后决定退出是可以谅解的, 对吧?
词源
late 15th cent. (in the sense 'freed from a liability or debt'): perhaps a colloquial abbreviation of medieval Latin quittus, from Latin quietus, used as a receipt (see QUIETUS).