Abandonment

(noun.) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away.

(noun.) the act of giving something up.

手打:温迪

• This abandonment of the second topic threw him on the third. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment--far worse than my abandonment--how it goaded me! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Accordingly, with the abandonment of all the other plans for reaching a base heretofore described, this new one was undertaken. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They picked up a great many prisoners and forced the abandonment of some property. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I then ordered the abandonment of Washington, but directed the holding of New Berne at all hazards. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He did not believe in final self-abandonment. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was the complete abandonment of America by France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She remembered the abandonments of Roman licence, and her heart grew hot. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

整理:奥蒂斯