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单词 quits
释义
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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).
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