She gave up presently as if a cloud had approached the sun or the smog thickened and so broken the religious instant, whatever it might have been.

现在她放弃了，就像乌云蔽日,烟雾笼罩,这个宗教瞬间也破碎了，不管它之前是这么样子。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

so you can either leave or you can leave the dog here. You give it up. You surrender the dog."

所以你可以离开，也可以把狗留下。你只是把狗放弃了。”

与流浪狗的相遇 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Part of what's been bothering Franny is her frustration with acting, and that's one of the things that Lane is so surprised she has given up; it was the only thing she was passionate about.

动作的挫败已经让弗兰尼烦恼了,莱恩也很奇怪她放弃了,这是她唯一有激情的事情呀。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

CFO He could have been CFO at lots of other companies, but he stayed with the company, and the company stayed with him.

他可以去很多其它的公司做，但他没有放弃公司，公司也没有放弃他。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

I did not abandon my interest in politics to discover how it might be bettered in other respects, and I was perpetually awaiting my opportunity.

我并未放弃对政治的兴趣,仍想探索,如何能更有效地管治，我也一直都在等待我的机会。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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.

这应该是合理的,因为如果某物的电离能很低，这也就意味着它的电负性也不高，那么它就会更愿意,放弃一定的电子密度，而本质上这正是你在,形成共价键时所需要做的,分享你的一些电子密度。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The United States dropped it in 1933 and other countries did it later.

然后1933年，美国放弃了金本位制度3,其他国家也在此之后也相继放弃。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But if we say that,then we've given up on the body view.

但如果我们这样说，也就是放弃了肉体理论。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The only constraint given by the law of nature is that the rights we have, the natural rights we have we can't give up nor can we take them from somebody else.

自然法唯一制约的,是我们拥有的这些自然权利,我们不能放弃，也不能剥夺他人的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He presents himself, in other words, as a human being of unparalleled piety and devotion who will risk life itself rather than quit the post that has been given to him.

他呈现的自我，换句话说，是极度虔诚敬神的人类,甚至压下自己的生命作赌注,也不愿放弃这个天赐的角色。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And we know--from reading Buddy's letter over Zooey's shoulder in the bathtub--we know that Zooey had similar concerns about his own acting career, his own commitment to acting that Buddy tried to persuade him out of.

我们知道，从巴蒂的信中，在浴缸中,我们知道左伊也对他自己的表演事业感到同样的担心,他对表演的付出，巴蒂,曾试图劝说他放弃。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

On the one hand, we have these unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property, which means that even we don't have the power to give them up, and that's what creates the limits on legitimate government.

一方面，我们有不可剥夺的生命，自由和财产权，这意味着即使我们自己也无权放弃，正是这些权利，造成了对合法政府的限制。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选