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单词 abdication
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abdication
noun[U]
uk
/ˌæb.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæb.dəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
thefactof nolongercontrollingormanagingsomething that you are inchargeof:
（对权力、责任等的）放弃，逃避
Thecouncildeniedthattheirdecisionrepresentedany abdicationofresponsibility.委员会否认他们的决定是在推卸责任。
It isdifficulttoimaginea moreflagrantabdicationofduty.很难想象还有比这更明目张胆逃避责任的行为。
anoccasionwhen akingorqueenmakes aformalstatementthat he or she nolongerwantsto bekingorqueen:
逊位，退位，让位，正式放弃（王位）
Theromancebetween King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpsonresultedin Edward's abdication from thethrone.英王爱德华八世和沃利斯•辛普森之间的恋情导致爱德华退位。
His abdicationspeechwasbroadcaston theradio.他的退位演说在电台上播出。
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  • It was ashockingabdication ofresponsibility.
  • His abdication ofpresidentialauthoritywasobservedwithmountingconcern.
  • Shebelievesthat thepursuitofconsensusis the abdication ofleadership.
  • It was anextraordinarytimein Nepal, with thedeclarationof ademocraticrepublicin May and the abdication of thekinginJune.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stop having or doing something
  • abdicate
  • bail out
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  • break withsomething
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  • forgo
  • forsake
  • forswear
  • ghost
  • givesomethingup as a bad jobidiom
  • give up
  • give up the ghostidiom
  • lose
  • relinquishment
  • self-denying
  • self-sacrifice
  • self-sacrificing
  • step
  • throw
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Retiring & resigning
(Definition ofabdicationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabdication

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Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promoteabdicationof control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.
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The results could beabdicationof personal responsibility and an undermining of traditional religious morality.
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It is only by becoming an official of the state that such anabdicationof responsibility is justifiable.
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The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge,abdicationand denial.
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The copious pleasures on offer there are too artificial, too flagrantly polymorphous to allow the subject his conventionalabdicationof the self.
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The emergence of a culture of compromise should not be misinterpreted as anabdicationof the role of congress as a comptroller of executive ambitions.
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Hisabdicationundermined the framework of military unity.
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While this characterization may have been apt in some instances, intimidation rather than ideological orientation was responsible for many of the abdications.
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In the case of totalabdicationthis intersection would be empty.
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Hisabdicationis not therefore judged a failure.
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By the same token, this may explain whyabdicationin favour of one of his sons was said finally to have commended itself to the king himself.
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Medical training inculcates this belief and if physicians were to relinquish this power to patients, they would most likely believe this was anabdicationof their professional responsibility.
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Only if the panic had been great enough to cause anabdication, or at least some change of policy, would the perpetrators have felt able to boast of their tactics.
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Its ethical open-endedness, the multiplicity of perspectives, voices, and judgments it offers, and itsabdicationof narrative authority, may all be construed as forms of resistance to narrative closure.
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Wilkes may have had no serious expectation of forcing his king'sabdication, yet he did create conditions that, had circumstances developed perfectly, might have led in that direction.
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