We’ve been dependent on our automobile for so many years that giving it up was unthinkable.

我们已经很多年依赖汽车，放弃它简直不可想象。

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We've been dependent on our automobile for so many years that giving it up was unthinkable. If you own a car, it's probably unthinkable to you too.

我们已经依赖汽车那么多年，所以放弃它似乎无法想象。如果你也有一辆车，可能你也会觉得无法想象没有车的生活。

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Beleaguered and poor though she sometimes felt, or craving an interruption in the sea of asphalt and iron, a silence in the tide of chatter, she couldn't imagine giving it up.

尽管她时而有种被围困的感觉，时而又觉得自己很可怜；她还感到自己仿佛是在纽约那由沥青和钢筋混凝土构成的世界里吃力地寻找一个出口和一刻喧嚣中的宁静，她都无法想像离开纽约会是怎样。

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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.

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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.

这样认知失调就会让你想到,你为之付出代价的东西一定是有价值的,然后你就会喜欢上它。

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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。

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"It took so long to win this title, I'm not giving it up first fight, " said Newbridge's undefeated Rees, 27, who beat Souleymane M'Baye for the crown.

BBC: Rees facing tough Kotelnik test

Did you ever think of giving it up?

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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.

FORBES: How Facebook and Twitter Are Replacing Blogging