a)give something ↔ upSTOP DOING something to stop doing something, especially something that you do regularly 放弃某事〔尤指经常做的事情〕
Darren has decided to give up football at the end of this season.
戴伦决定本赛季结束后就不再踢球。
She gave up her job and started writing poetry.
她辞掉工作,开始写诗。
give up doing something
I gave up going to the theatre when I moved out of London.
我搬出伦敦以后就不再去看戏了。
Why don’t you give up smoking?
你为什么不戒烟呢?
b)STOP DOING somethingto stop trying to do something 放弃〔努力〕
We spent half an hour looking for the keys, but eventually gave up and went home.
我们找了半个小时的钥匙,但最后还是放弃,回家去了。
I give up. What’s the answer?
我不想了,答案是什么?
You shouldn’t give up so easily.
你不应该这么轻易就放弃。
give up doing something
I gave up trying to persuade him to continue with his studies.
我不再劝他继续学业。
give something ↔ up
She has still not given up the search.
她还是没有放弃寻找。
The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely).
地太硬挖不动,于是我放弃了无谓的尝试。
c)give yourself/somebody upCATCH to allow yourself or someone else to be caught by the police or enemysoldiers 自首/把某人交给警察[敌军]
The siege ended peacefully after the gunman gave himself up.
持枪歹徒缴械投降,围捕行动和平结束。
give yourself/somebody up to
In the end, his family gave him up to the police.
最后,他的家人把他交给了警方。
d)give up somethingSPEND TIME to use some of your time to do a particular thing 腾出时间
I don’t mind giving up a couple of hours a week to deal with correspondence.
我不介意一个星期腾出几个小时来处理信件。
e)give something/somebody ↔ upGIVE to give something that is yours to someone else 把某物/某人让出去,放弃某物/某人
The family refused to give up any of their land.
这家人拒绝让出任何一块土地。
She was put under tremendous pressure to give the baby up.
她承受着要她放弃孩子的巨大压力。
give something/somebody ↔ up to
I would always give my seat up to an elderly person on the bus.
我在公共汽车上总是会给老人让座。
f)give somebody ↔ upFINISH/COME TO AN ENDRELATIONSHIP to end a romanticrelationship with someone, even though you do not really want to 〔不情愿地〕与某人分手,放弃〔某人〕
I knew deep down that I should give him up.
我内心很清楚,我应该放他走。
g)give somebody up for dead/lost etcDIE to believe that someone is dead and stop looking for them 认为某人已死/失踪等〔而不再寻找〕
The ship sank and the crew were given up for dead.
船沉了,全体船员被认为已经丧生。
h)give it up for somebody spoken informal used to ask people to applaud someone 为某人鼓掌,为某人叫好
give up• Americans love their cars, and no-one is going to persuade them to give them up.• I used to really enjoydancing, but I had to give it up after I became ill.• Fania was prepared to give up all her jewelry to help her father get out of debt.• She gave up drinking over 10 years ago.• As he grew older he gave up going for walks and seldom went out.• He gave up his job so that he could look after his wife.• I made several attempts to repair the damage, but gave up in the end.• Russia is very unlikely to give up its nuclearweapons.• If you smoke, try to give up or at least cut down.• We will never give up our struggle.• After the accident she had to give upriding and farming.• I've given up trying to get her to change her mind.• We did start a protest, but gave it up when we realized we would never be successful.• Come on, don't give up yet!
give up doing something• I gave up smoking when I got pregnant.• Vladimir has given up trying to teach her Russian.
give up ... easily• As for myself, I am not one to give up his passions easily.• In any case, neither birdgives up its secrets easily.• Still, this wasn't a fellow to give up easily.• These are titles I cherish and do not intend to give up easily.• They did not give up their privileges easily.• Whatever it is beneath the sunny waves, it is not giving up easily.• When challenged, he may give up easily and retreat to his own world.• These students tend to have poortolerance for frustration and give up easily when tasks become difficult. 23.
give yourself/somebody up• He is not going to give that up.• I kept starting new regimes, then finding I couldn't give them up.• I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.• That's why I want to give it up for adoption.• But then, why give them up so abruptly?• In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election.• But we would not give it up without a desperate struggle.
give to• They gave bonuses of up to $ 1,000 per person to reward outstanding group effort.• He also wants to give families up to $ 10,000 in annualtaxdeductions for college costs.• She gave that up to become a secretary.• They were both dead by the time Goulais gave himself up to the police.• Printer and scannerperformed well, but neither gave results up to the specification of the rest of the system.• Will they give themselves up to the tribunal?
give somebody up for dead/lost etc• After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.• Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.• On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacredplant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.• It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.