Abdicate

(verb.) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; 'The King abdicated when he married a divorcee'.

手打:玛丽安

• The military feelings, says James, are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered . 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I renounce my office, I abdicate my power--assume it who will! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• To ignore the directive influence of this present environment upon the young is simply to abdicate the educational function. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She abdicated without a word or a struggle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She abdicated her throne, and despoiled herself of her imperial sceptre among the ice rocks that surrounded us. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A little later at Fontainebleau the emperor abdicated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In 1912 the emperor abdicated, and the greatest community in the world became a republic. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then, by all the rules of kingship, Maximilian should have abdicated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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