abdicate
abdicate 英 [ˈæbdɪkeɪt] 美 [ˈæbdɪˌket]
vi. 退位；放弃 vt. 退位；放弃
进行时:abdicating 过去式:abdicated 过去分词:abdicated 第三人称单数:abdicates 名词复数:abdicates
- Sometimes someone in power might decide to give up that power and step down from his or her position. When they do that, they abdicate their authority, giving up all duties and perks of the job.
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- vi. 退位；放弃
- vt. 退位；放弃
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1. To accomplish first-class businesses, he can not but abdicate happiness, travels, entertainments,love and hatred, quarrels, arguments and clarifications.
为了完成第一流的事，他必须放弃或减少凡夫俗子的快乐、交游、娱乐、爱恨、争执、答辩与澄清。
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2. When Paula Dobriansky told the gathering that the Bush Administration "will not abdicate our responsibility" to address global warming, the hall filled with boos.
当 保拉·多布里扬斯基向大会宣布布什政府“不会放弃自己的责任”去处理全球变暖这一问题时，全场报以唏嘘声。
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3. Amid the excitement surrounding the birthday celebrations, the queen's cousin, Margaret Rhodes, said that she is "perfectly sure" the monarch will never abdicate the throne.
生日庆祝宴会的气氛十分欢愉，女王的堂妹玛格丽特·罗德斯说，她“非常肯定”女王不会退位。
- abdicate (v.) 1540s, "to disown, disinherit (children)," from Latin abdicatus, past participle of abdicare "to disown, disavow, reject" (specifically abdicare magistratu "renounce office"), literally "proclaim as not belonging to one," from ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + dicare "proclaim" (from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly"). Meaning "divest oneself of office, privilege, etc., before the term expires" first recorded 1610s in English (it was in classical Latin). Related: Abdicated; abdicating.
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