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VERB
離棄；遺棄；拋棄
If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
例句
He claimed that his parents had abandoned him...
他聲稱父母遺棄了他。
The road is strewn with abandoned vehicles.
道路上滿是棄置的車輛。
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VERB
中途放棄，中止（活動、工作等）
If you abandon an activity or piece of work, you stop doing it before it is finished.
例句
The authorities have abandoned any attempt to distribute food...
當局中止了分發食物的嘗試。
The scheme's investors, fearful of bankruptcy, decided to abandon the project.
因為擔心破產，該計劃的投資者決定放棄這個項目。
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VERB
放棄（想法或思路）
If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way.
例句
Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea.
最終理智占了上風，他打消了那個念頭。
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VERB
放縱；使沉湎于
If you abandon yourself to an emotion, you think about it a lot and feel it strongly, especially when other people might think you are wrong to do so.
例句
We are scared to abandon ourselves to our feelings in case we seem weak or out of control.
我們不敢放縱自己的情感，以免顯得太過軟弱或缺乏自制。
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N-UNCOUNT
放任；放縱
If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave.
例句
He has spent money with gay abandon...
他肆意揮霍錢財。
Their permissiveness toward their children reflects the wild abandon of their own lives.
他們對孩子的放任折射出他們自身生活的放浪形骸。
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PHRASE
（船舶下沉時）棄船
If people abandon ship, they get off a ship because it is sinking.
例句
The officers and crew prepared to abandon ship in an orderly fashion.
全體船員秩序井然地準備棄船。