surrender
英 [s?'rend?]
美[s?'r?nd?]
- vt. 使投降；放棄；交出；聽任
- vi. 投降；屈服；自首
- n. 投降；放棄；交出；屈服
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詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?surrenders;過去式:?surrendered;過去分詞:?surrendered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?surrendering;
中文詞源
surrender 投降，屈服，放棄，交出
sur-,在上，向上，render,給回，返還，給予，遞交。原指放棄，交出，后引申詞義投降，屈 服等，且成為主要詞義。詞義演變比較 give up.
英文詞源
- surrender
- surrender: [15] To surrender is etymologically to ‘give up’. The word was borrowed from Old French surrendre ‘deliver over, give up’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sur- ‘over’ and rendre ‘give, deliver’ (source of English render).
=> render - surrender (v.)
- mid-15c., "to give (something) up," from Old French surrendre "give up, deliver over" (13c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + rendre "give back" (see render (v.)). Reflexive sense of "to give oneself up" (especially as a prisoner) is from 1580s. Related: Surrendered; surrendering.
- surrender (n.)
- early 15c., in law, "a giving up" (of an estate, land grant, interest in property, etc.), from Anglo-French surrendre, Old French surrendre noun use of infinitive, "give up, deliver over" (see surrender (v.)).
雙語例句
- 1. Which do they want me to do? declare war or surrender?
- 他們想讓我做什么，宣戰(zhàn)還是投降？
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- 2. The rebels are emphatic that this is not a surrender.
- 叛亂者堅(jiān)稱這并不是投降。
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- 3. General Martin Bonnet called on the rebels to surrender.
- 馬丁·邦尼特將軍呼吁反叛者投降。
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- 4. Depression is a partial surrender to death.
- 沮喪是對死亡的一定妥協(xié)。
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- 5. They had no thought of surrender.
- 他們沒有想過要投降。
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