今日短語
動詞搭配 “give up” 的基本意思是 “放棄,停止做某事”,後面可接名詞,即 “give up something”;也可以接現在分詞,即 “give up doing something”,意思也是 “停止做某事”。
在談論改掉不良習慣的語境中,“give up” 還有 “戒掉…” 的含義。比如,“to give up smoking 戒煙”。
例句
This year, I’m definitely going to give up smoking.
今年,我一定得把煙給戒掉。
I tried learning to play the guitar, but I didn’t like practising so I just gave up.
我試著學彈吉它,但因為不喜歡練習,所以就放棄瞭。
Once I saw that film about vegetarianism, it was easy to give up eating meat.
在我看瞭那部講素食主義的電影之後,放棄吃肉變得很容易。
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