relinquish
基本释义
[verb] voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up
[动词] 自愿停止持有或主张;放弃
深入解读
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该词源自拉丁语 relinquere (抛下、抛弃、放弃),15世纪中期经古法语 relinquiss- 进入英语后开始用来表示“放弃”或“交出、让予”,常作为正式用语表示在不情愿的情况下自愿放弃继续持有或者主张某物,但这个单词本身的隐含意味较淡,具体色彩要视前后搭配词语或被放弃事物的特征而定,比如:
- 在此期间,创始人被迫放弃对公司的控制权。
In the interim, the founder was forced to relinquish control of the company. - 那位戴着素净首饰的服务员将房子让给了她的妹妹。
The attendant who wore discreet jewellery relinquished possession of the house to her sister.
从这个概念出发, relinquish 还可以用来形容放弃持有某个实物,即“松开、放开”,比如:
- 她松开了握着方向盘的手几秒钟之后,她的车猛地撞上了金属围栏。
Within seconds after she relinquished her hold/grip on the steering wheel, her car hurtled against the metal fence.
好书例句
Her hand relinquished the rope of hair and dropped to her side, and the pile of tresses, no longer supported, fell from the crown of her head about her shoulders and over the white nightgown.
她的手松开了发辫,垂到身边,一头的秀发失去了依托,从她头顶泻下,散到肩头,落在她白色睡衣上。
出自英国小说家托马斯·哈代(Thomas Hardy)的长篇小说《还乡》(The Return of the Native)。
外刊例句
- It is like old times in another way: both newspapers are getting readers to pay, offsetting advertising revenue relinquished to the internet.
还有一个方面也和过去相似:两家报纸都在争取让读者付费订阅内容,以弥补流向互联网的广告收入。
——《经济学人》 - Still, countries remain reluctant to relinquish control of their home institutions to Frankfurt.
然而,欧元区国家仍然不愿意把国内金融机构的控制权移交给法兰克福的欧洲央行。
——《纽约时报》
详细用法
relinquish(动词)是一个英语单词,表示放弃、放手或让渡。它常用于描述放弃权利、责任、控制或拥有的东西。下面是关于relinquish的详细用法和一些相关的短语:
- 放弃权利或拥有的东西:
- relinquish control:放弃控制
- relinquish ownership:放弃所有权
- relinquish power:放弃权力
- relinquish authority:放弃权威
- relinquish claim:放弃要求
- relinquish possession:放弃拥有
- relinquish assets:放弃资产
- relinquish rights:放弃权利
- relinquish control over something:放弃对某事的控制
- relinquish one’s hold on something:放开对某事的把握
- 放弃责任或义务:
- relinquish responsibility:放弃责任
- relinquish duty:放弃职责
- relinquish obligations:放弃义务
- relinquish a position:辞去职位
- relinquish a role:放弃角色
- relinquish a task:放弃任务
- relinquish a commitment:放弃承诺
- relinquish a duty of care:放弃照顾责任
- 放弃控制或支配:
- relinquish control over a situation:放弃对局势的控制
- relinquish influence:放弃影响力
- relinquish command:放弃指挥权
- relinquish dominance:放弃主导地位
- relinquish control of the company:放弃对公司的控制
- relinquish control of a project:放弃对项目的控制
- 其他相关短语:
- relinquish a dream:放弃一个梦想
- relinquish a habit:放弃一种习惯
- relinquish a belief:放弃一种信念
- relinquish a plan:放弃一个计划
- relinquish a goal:放弃一个目标
- relinquish control of emotions:放下对情绪的控制
- relinquish a sense of control:放下对控制的感觉
- relinquish control over one’s life:放弃对自己生活的控制
同近义词
eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from
renounce: formally declare one’s abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession)
forsake: renounce or give up (something valued or pleasant)