To give up, as in defeat; surrender or submit.

让与，屈服：因失败而放弃；投降或屈服。

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After the 1994 elections, I had been ridiculed as an irrelevant figure, destined for defeat in 1996.

1994年的国会两院选举后，我被讥讽为一个非主流的人物，注定要在1996年失利。

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But though I fought him with all my strength, unequally matched in age as we were, I suffered many a bitter defeat.

尽管我使尽全力与他论战，但因为年龄的极不相称，我遭受过几次惨重的失败。

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In a report published last week, the United Nations says that 2,800 civilians had died in recent weeks, as the army pushed to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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The two cabinet secretaries say the United States still wants to deter, defeat and dismantle the al-Qaida terrorist network, as President Obama said in his statement on strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan in March.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The DTRA has looked at what is known in the jargon as functional defeat, in other words bombing their entrances shut or destroying their electrical systems with electromagnetic pulses.

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As nobody today in countries such as Egypt would pretend that a referendum could defeat the person who holds power, in Venezuela, such expectation is as futile as in Egypt since it is clearly manipulated by a dictatorship.

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As Russia conceded defeat in Chechnya and recommitted itself to market reform, the beginning of Mr Yeltsin's second term was greeted optimistically in western capitals.

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