capitulation
capitulation 英 [kəpɪtjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] 美
n. （有条件的）投降；投降协定；（文件、声明等的）要点；条约
名词复数:capitulations
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- n. （有条件的）投降；投降协定；（文件、声明等的）要点；条约
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1. So is that disastrous event that might kick off a capitulation likely to happen or will governments act quickly enough to head it off?
那麽,是否存在刺激市场投降式下跌的灾难性事件发生,或者政府快速行动改变市场走势的可能呢?
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2. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry.
巴黎投降的前八天，他和一个伙伴对调了职务，参加了骑兵队伍。
- capitulation (n.) 1530s, "an agreement on specified terms;" 1570s, "articles of agreement;" from Middle French capitulation, noun of action from capituler "agree on specified terms," from Medieval Latin capitulare "to draw up in heads or chapters," hence "arrange conditions," from capitulum "chapter," in classical Latin "heading," literally "a little head," diminutive of caput (genitive capitis) "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). From 1640s in narrowed sense "the making of terms of surrender; a yielding to an enemy upon stipulated terms."
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