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单词 abandonment
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abandonment
noun[U]
uk
/əˈbæn.dən.mənt/us
/əˈbæn.dən.mənt/
theactofleavingsomeone or something or ofendingorstoppingsomething, usuallyforever:
离弃；放弃；抛弃；遗弃
The abandonment of theislandfollowednucleartestsin thearea.在这个地区进行核试验后，这座岛屿被放弃了。
His abandonment by hismotherwhen he was ababyaffectedhim all hislife.他在婴儿时期被母亲遗弃，影响了他的一生。
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  • The Mayancivilizationwent into adeclinethatendedwith thealmostcompleteabandonment oftheircities.
  • Highwindscausedthe abandonment of the seconddayofracing.
  • At thecoreof alltraumais aprofoundsenseof abandonment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Removing and getting rid of things
  • banish
  • be scattered to the four windsidiom
  • bin
  • castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
  • castsomeone/somethingout
  • dumping
  • erase
  • erasure
  • evacuate
  • evacuation
  • exorcism
  • expunge
  • fling
  • scrape
  • shoo
  • shrug
  • shrugsomethingoff
  • shuck
  • shucksomethingoff
  • sling
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Departing
Causing something to end
(Definition ofabandonmentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabandonment

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If illegitimacy was the underlying reason forabandonment, then it might be expected that abandonment would take place as soon after birth as possible.
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Relating transformation toabandonmentis somewhat more difficult, but in a sense the village, already partially abandoned, was transformed into ruins.
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The crisis evoked fears ofabandonment, but it also evoked fears of entrapment.
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It is this infamous notion of the 'abandonment' of older people by their families that has been prominent in the western gerontological debate.
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In many of these areas the large number is likely to be the result of the repeatedabandonmentof houses.
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In all forest fallows, ranging from 0.2-1.5 ha in size, tobacco and cotton were cultivated for a period of 3 y prior toabandonment.
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In this article, we analyze the simplestabandonmentmodel, assuming that the customer's patience is exponentially distributed.
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In some poetry, sensitivity, she suggests, "has become almost pathological in intensity, and has led to a dangerousabandonmentto sensation" (182).
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The registers indicate dates of divorces and theabandonmentof women (men who were abandoned by their wives were not registered as such).
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The disclosure of infection could lead to domestic violence and/orabandonment, unemployment, and social isolation.
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From another perspective, cities combine images of mobility with those of loss andabandonment.
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The author also describes the historical developments leading to theabandonmentof partial advance funding, as was the legislation's original intent.
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The landscape is a mosaic of crop fields, secondary forests of different development stages resulting from theabandonmentof agricultural lands and primary forest.
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When judges read rationales of appellate decisions carefully, they may be reading to discover whether the appellate decision is ripe forabandonmentor modification.
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However, dissatisfaction with how realistic the assignments to this category were in some centers led to itsabandonment.
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