abandon

1. V-T If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. 拋棄

He claimed that his parents had abandoned him. 他聲稱他的父母拋棄了他。

2. V-T If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished. 中途放棄

The authorities have abandoned any attempt to distribute food in an orderly fashion. 儅侷中途放棄了任何有序地分發食品的嘗試。

3. V-T If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way. 放棄 (想法或思想方式)

Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea. 理性佔了上風，他放棄了該想法。

4. N-UNCOUNT If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave. 放縱[usu 'with' N] [表不滿]

He approached life with reckless abandon–I don't think he himself knew what he was going to do next. 他以不計後果的放縱態度對待生活–我想他自己都不知道他接下來要做什麽。

5. →see also abandoned

6. PHRASE If people abandon ship, they get off a ship because it is sinking. (因船舶下沉而) 棄船

At the captain's order, they abandoned ship. 在船長的命令下，他們棄船離開了。