| 词汇 | give someone up for dead |
| 释义 | give someone up for dead phrase (also give up on someone) 对（某人）的生还不再抱有希望，认为（某人）将（或已经）死亡 to think that someone is certain to die or to be dead 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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