Sometimes a business that is up against it will have to throw in the towel. This means to accept defeat or surrender.

有时一门生意四面受困将不得不throw in the towel，意思是认输或放弃。

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Like the Europeans, the Arabs, the Asians and everyone else, the Latin Americans have clearly noted that Obama's only consistent foreign policy goal is his aim of forcing Israel to accept a hostile Palestinian state and surrender all the land it took control over in 1967 to the likes of PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

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So long as Mr Sharon offers nothing in return for calling a halt, it would be a surrender that Mr Arafat is neither able nor willing to accept.

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From a strategic vantage point, both Sharon and then foreign minister Shimon Peres made it clear that Israel did not accept the Arab view that Israel must surrender all the lands it gained control of in the Six Day War as a precondition for peace.

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