Quit
[kwɪt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
(v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
(imp. & p. p.) of Quit
(a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
(a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
(a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.
(a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
(a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.
(a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.
(v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
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同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Deliver, clear, release, free, acquit, absolve, set free, deliver from, discharge from.[2]. Pay, discharge, settle, liquidate.[3]. Leave (with the purpose of never returning), vacate, withdraw from, go away from, retire from, depart from, get away from.[4]. Abandon, desert, forsake, resign, renounce, relinquish, forswear, cast off, give over, give up.
a. Clear, free, absolved, released, acquitted, discharged.
校對:威尔默
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Leave, resign, abandon, relinquish, discharge, release, surrender, give_up,depart_from, forsake
ANT:Seek, occupy, invade, bind, enforce, haunt, enter
布兰奇手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to pay requite: to release from obligation accusation &c.: to acquit: to depart from: to give up: to clear by full performance: (Spens.) to remove by force: (coll.) to give over cease:—pr.p. quit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. quit′ted.—adj. (B.) set free: acquitted: released from obligation.—n. Quit′-claim a deed of release.—v.t. to relinquish claim or title to.—n. Quit′-rent a rent by which the tenants are discharged from all other services—in old records called white rent as being paid in silver money.—adj. Quit′table capable of being quitted.—ns. Quit′tal (Shak.) requital repayment; Quit′tance a quitting or discharge from a debt or obligation: acquittance: recompense.—v.t. (obs.) to repay.—Quit cost to pay expenses; Quit one's self (B.) to behave; Quit scores to balance accounts.—Be quits to be even with one; Cry quittance to get even; Double or quits in gambling said when a stake due is either to become double or be reduced to nothing according to the issue of a certain chance; Notice to quit (law) notice to a tenant of real property that he must surrender possession.
校對:惠特尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Still, she could not quit her seat at the little parlour window. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Quit them all, while there is time and opportunity! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- His health gave way under the strain, and he quit the bank to begin work in a machine shop in St. Louis. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And with these words he hastily left the room, and Elizabeth heard him the next moment open the front door and quit the house. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You are the best actress we've got, and there'll be an end of everything if you quit the boards, said Jo. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The principal purport of his letter was to inform them that Mr. Wickham had resolved on quitting the militia. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It was three months, full three months, since her quitting it, and the change was from winter to summer. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Let Mrs. Casaubon do as she likes, he said to Sir James, whom he asked to see before quitting the house. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- They have subpoenaed my servant, too,' said Mr. Pickwick, quitting the other point; for there Mr. Perker's question had somewhat staggered him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A few weeks or months hence it may be too late, and I cannot bear the notion of quitting the country without a kind word of farewell from you. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He rather liked him for it; and he was conscious of his own irritability of temper at the time, which probably made them both quits. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- We must consider what Miss Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She must be quits with the Trenors first; after that she would take thought for the future. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Unable to rest or sleep, she quitted her asylum early, that she might again endeavour to find my brother. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Mademoiselle, I know this service would be more retired than that which I have quitted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She swept up the hearth, asked at what time she should prepare tea, and quitted the room with the same wooden face with which she had entered it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The nearness of this place to London was such, as to take away the idea of painful separation, when we quitted Raymond and Perdita. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- From Harriet's manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- When the gloves were bought, and they had quitted the shop again, Did you ever hear the young lady we were speaking of, play? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- They quitted it only with the removal of the tea-things. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
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