MBA联考英语高分突破(142)
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give up
投降;放弃;辞去
[例句]The suspects gave themselves up.
这些嫌疑犯投降了。
give way
让位,让路;让步;(情感等)失控
[例句]as day gives way slowly to night.
白天渐渐转为黑夜。
[例句]Steam trains gave way to electric trains.
蒸汽火车被电气火车取代了。
全真考题范例
(1997)语法与词汇部分
If you dont_____smoking,you will never get better.
A.give off B.give out
C.give over D.give up
答案:D
give off发出,冒出;give out发表,用完;give over交托,留出;give up放弃。
译文:假如你不戒烟,你的病情永远不会好转。
The big rocks suddenly disappeared,____a stretch of plain
where the only obstacles were clumps of bushes.
A.to give way B.giving a way to
C.giving way to D.having given way
答案:C
这里give way to是固定词组,意思是“给某人让路”,而且disappear和give way to的动作是伴随进行的,不能用完成时的having given way to。
译文:大石头突然消失了,面前出现的是一片平原,上面惟一的障碍物就是一些灌木丛。
(待续)