| 词汇 | cede |
| 释义 | cede verb[ T ] formaluk /siːd/ us /siːd/ to allow someone else to have or own something, especially unwillingly or because you are forced to do so: （尤指不情愿地或被迫）割让，让予，放弃 Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after the Opium War.鸦片战争后香港被割让给了英国。 Stop having or doing something abdicate abdication bandh bomb bomb out break with something butt forfeitable forgo forsake forswear give up give up the ghostidiom lay self-denying self-denyingly self-renouncing self-renunciation self-sacrifice throw cede | American Dictionarycede verb[ T ] fmlus/sid/ to give control or possession of something, esp. land to someone else, often unwillingly or because forced to do so: New Orleans was ceded to Spain in 1763. cede | Business Englishcede verb[ T ] formaluk /siːd/us to give something such as control, power, or a right to someone else, especially unwillingly: She says that she is finally learning to delegate, though she's still reluctant to cede control. cede sth to sbThe United States has already ceded its dominance of mass production manufacturing to low-wage countries. Examples of cedecede In the absence of dual vessels, it would then seem reasonable to cede bronchial status to the collateral vessels. Through marriage alliances, claims to land can be kept within the kin group or might be ceded to another group. The confident songbird shows off by "deliberately depriving itself of information," ceding priority to the left hemisphere in the process. This decisionmaking capacity, ceded to me by the parents, has been considered ethically acceptable in my neonatal intensive care unit. In terms of methodology, the structurally-based situational approach ceded ground on two fronts. Clinicians recognize that in large organizations-managed care plans and hospitals-they have ceded control over the content and flow of patient data to administrators. By the middle of the nineteenth century, most state legislatures had passed bills ceding the responsibility of overseeing divorces to the courts. Coalitions allow agents to take advantage of economies of scale, without necessarily ceding authority to other agents. The party at the parliamentary median may share government ministries with parties to its left or right without ceding policy control. In performance-driven scores, the composer will often cede certain sections of the piece to the performer. Measures to control aggregate expenditure involved the state ceding most of its responsibilities for health care to the regions. Legislators have a motive to frame statutes unambiguously lest they cede too much power to subordinates. The basis upon which sovereign authorities exercise political power is this executive power of the law of nature ceded to them by their subjects. The man to whom possession was ceded has the right to the sharecropping agreement. Most of the responsibilities for health care have been ceded to the regions. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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