abandon

英 [ə\"bænd(ə)n] 美 [ə\"bændən]

• 翻译

  n. 狂热；放任

  vt. 遗弃；放弃

英 [ə\"bænd(ə)n]||||||美 [ə\"bændən]

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n. 狂热；放任

vt. 遗弃；放弃

来自古法语短语 à bandon，由 à（at，to）+ bandon（权力，管辖权）组成，字面意思就是“使自己处于……的管辖之下”，常用来表示放弃自己的权利、独立性或应尽的义务。其中法语单词 bandon（权力）与英语单词 ban（禁令）有关，而 ban 原本指的是封建领主在自己的领地上拥有管辖权，可以发布公告，要求或禁止人们做什么。同源词：ban（禁令），banish（放逐），bandit（强盗、法外之徒），contraband（走私、禁运品），banns（ 结婚预告）。

abandon

abandon:

[14] The Old French verb

abandoner

is the source of

abandon

. It was based on

a bandon

, meaning literally ‘under controlo,rjurisdiction’, which was used in the phrase

mettre a bandon

‘put someone under someone else’s control’ – hence ‘abandon them’. The word

bandon

came, in altered form, from Latin

bannum

‘proclamation’, which is circuitously related to English

banns

‘proclamation of marriage’a,n,dis an ancestor of

contraband

.

=> banns, contraband

abandon (v.)

late 14c., \\\\\\\"to give up, surrender (oneselfo,rsomething), give over utterly; to yield (oneself) utterly (to religion, fornication, etc.),\\\\\\\" from Old French

abandoner

(12c.), from adverbial phrase

à bandon

\\\\\\\"at will, at discretion,\\\\\\\" from

à

\\\\\\\"at, to\\\\\\\" (see ad-) +

bandon

\\\\\\\"power, jurisdiction,\\\\\\\" from Latin

bannum

, \\\\\\\"proclamation,\\\\\\\" from a Frankish word related to ban (v.).

Mettre sa forest à bandon

was a feudal law phrase in the 13th cent. =

mettre sa forêt à permission

, i.e. to open it freely to any one for pastureo,rto cut wood in; hence the later sense of giving up one\\\\\\\"s rights for a time, letting go, leaving, abandoning. [Auguste Brachet, \\\\\\\"An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language,\\\\\\\" transl. G.W. Kitchin, Oxford, 1878]

Etymologically, the word carries a sense of \\\\\\\"put someone under someone else\\\\\\\"s control.\\\\\\\" Meaning \\\\\\\"to give up absolutely\\\\\\\" is from late 14c. Related: Abandoned;

abandoning

.

abandon (n.)

\\\\\\\"a letting loose, surrender to natural impulses,\\\\\\\" 1822, from a sense in French

abandon

(see abandon (v.). Borrowed earlier (c. 1400) from French in a sense \\\\\\\"(someone\\\\\\\"s) control;\\\\\\\"a,n,dcompare Middle English adverbial phrase

at abandon

, i.e. \\\\\\\"recklessly,\\\\\\\" attested from late 14c.

1. The officersa,n,dcrew prepared to

abandon

ship in an orderly fashion.

全体船员秩序井然地准备弃船。

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2. The market might

abandon

the stock,a,n,dknock down its price.

市场可能会抛售该股票，从而令其股价下跌。

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3. The scheme\\\\\\\"s investors, fearful of bankruptcy, decided to

abandon

the project.

因为担心破产，该计划的投资者决定放弃这个项目。

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4. Their decision to

abandon

the trip was made because of financial constraints.

他们决定放弃这次出游是因为财力有限。

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5.

Abandon

hope all ye who enter here.

汝等进入此地，须弃绝希望。

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