| 词汇 | give-up-for-dead |
| 释义 | give someone up for deadphrase(alsogive up on someone) to think that someone is certain to die or to be dead: 对（某人）的生还不再抱有希望，认为（某人）将（或已经）死亡 The doctors had virtually given her up for dead, but she eventually recovered.医生们实际上已经认定她救不活了，可她最终康复了。 After a three-day search on the mountain, they gave him up for dead.在山中搜寻了3天后，他们认为他不可能再有生还希望，便停止了搜救。 He'd been missing so long, even his wife had given him up for dead. I wasn't going to give up on her if there was the smallest possibility she was alive. Her mother refused to give her up for dead. See also give someone up |
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