give it up

基本解释

I talked him giving it up.
我说服他放弃了。
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We’ve been dependent on our automobile for so many years that giving it up was unthinkable.
我们已经很多年依赖汽车，放弃它简直不可想象。
Yoweri Museveni has held power in Uganda since 1986 and shows no signs of giving it up, but that doesn't mean he never feels threatened.
自从1986年约韦里·穆塞韦尼就在乌干达掌握了政权并且不会放弃政权，但是那并不意味着他从未感到过受到威胁。

Their whole life was in that store, making money: saving it to go home, giving up money to send it back annually. Many areas of the museum celebrate the successes of individuals.
So, cognitive dissonance will lead you then to think that what you are giving it up for has some value and then you establish a liking for it.
这样认知失调就会让你想到,你为之付出代价的东西一定是有价值的,然后你就会喜欢上它。
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This should make sense because if something has a low ionization energy, that means it's not very electronegative, which means it's going to be a lot happier giving up electron density, which is essentially what you're doing -- when you're forming covalent bonds is you're sharing some of your electron density.
这应该是合理的,因为如果某物的电离能很低，这也就意味着它的电负性也不高，那么它就会更愿意,放弃一定的电子密度，而本质上这正是你在,形成共价键时所需要做的,分享你的一些电子密度。
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And now a lot of those hobbyists appear to be giving it up, or at least cutting back, in favor of less demanding hobbies that offer some of the same satisfactions: microblogging and social networking.
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