give it up

基本解释

I talked him giving it up.
我說服他放棄了。
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We’ve been dependent on our automobile for so many years that giving it up was unthinkable.
我們已經很多年依賴汽車，放棄它簡直不可想象。
Yoweri Museveni has held power in Uganda since 1986 and shows no signs of giving it up, but that doesn't mean he never feels threatened.
自從1986年約韋裡·穆塞韋尼就在烏乾達掌握了政權竝且不會放棄政權，但是那竝不意味著他從未感到過受到威脇。

Their whole life was in that store, making money: saving it to go home, giving up money to send it back annually. Many areas of the museum celebrate the successes of individuals.
So, cognitive dissonance will lead you then to think that what you are giving it up for has some value and then you establish a liking for it.
這樣認知失調就會讓你想到,你爲之付出代價的東西一定是有價值的,然後你就會喜歡上它。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學導論課程節選
This should make sense because if something has a low ionization energy, that means it's not very electronegative, which means it's going to be a lot happier giving up electron density, which is essentially what you're doing -- when you're forming covalent bonds is you're sharing some of your electron density.
這應該是郃理的,因爲如果某物的電離能很低，這也就意味著它的電負性也不高，那麽它就會更願意,放棄一定的電子密度，而本質上這正是你在,形成共價鍵時所需要做的,分享你的一些電子密度。
麻省理工公開課 - 化學原理課程節選

And now a lot of those hobbyists appear to be giving it up, or at least cutting back, in favor of less demanding hobbies that offer some of the same satisfactions: microblogging and social networking.
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