He would rather starve to death than surrender himself.

他宁愿饿死也不愿投降。

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We advised the burglar to surrender himself to the police.

我们规劝窃贼向警方投案自首。

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Thenceforth he tried to give up all idea of personal responsibility and surrender himself to the Divine Will.

从此以后，他尝试放弃了所有的个人责任，让自己臣服在神的意愿之下。

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For more than a day, they surrounded the Toulouse apartment building where he was holed up, at one point extracting a promise that he would surrender himself.

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One of them, Milan Milutinovic, the president of Serbia, has immunity under the constitution, and his office has dismissed reports, following Mr Milosevic's departure, that he may surrender himself to the tribunal, perhaps in order to testify against Mr Milosevic.

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Negotiators arrived to try to get Ryan to surrender, but he turned the gun on himself.

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