surrender
英 [sərˈen.dər]
美 [səˈren.dɚ]
- vt. 使投降；放弃；交出；听任
- vi. 投降；屈服；自首
- n. 投降；放弃；交出；屈服
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中文词源
surrender 投降，屈服，放弃，交出
sur-,在上，向上，render,给回，返还，给予，递交。原指放弃，交出，后引申词义投降，屈 服等，且成为主要词义。词义演变比较 give up.
英语词源
- surrender
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surrender: [15] To surrender is etymologically to ‘give up’. The word was borrowed from Old French surrendre ‘deliver over, give up’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sur- ‘over’ and rendre ‘give, deliver’ (source of English render).
=> render - surrender (v.)
- mid-15c., "to give (something) up," from Old French surrendre "give up, deliver over" (13c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + rendre "give back" (see render (v.)). Reflexive sense of "to give oneself up" (especially as a prisoner) is from 1580s. Related: Surrendered; surrendering.
- surrender (n.)
- early 15c., in law, "a giving up" (of an estate, land grant, interest in property, etc.), from Anglo-French surrendre, Old French surrendre noun use of infinitive, "give up, deliver over" (see surrender (v.)).
权威例句
- 1. Which do they want me to do? declare war or surrender?
- 他们想让我做什么，宣战还是投降？
- 2. The rebels are emphatic that this is not a surrender.
- 叛乱者坚称这并不是投降。
- 3. General Martin Bonnet called on the rebels to surrender.
- 马丁·邦尼特将军呼吁反叛者投降。
- 4. Depression is a partial surrender to death.
- 沮丧是对死亡的一定妥协。
- 5. They had no thought of surrender.
- 他们没有想过要投降。