1VERB 离弃;遗弃;抛弃 If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so. 离弃;遗弃;抛弃
He claimed that his parents had abandoned him. [VERB noun]
他声称父母遗弃了他。
The road is strewn with abandoned vehicles. [VERB-ed]
3VERB 放弃(想法或思路) If you abandon an idea or way of thinking, you stop having that idea or thinking in that way. 放弃(想法或思路)
Logic had prevailed and he had abandoned the idea. [VERB noun]
最终理智占了上风,他打消了那个念头。
4VERB 放纵;使沉湎于 If you abandon yourself to an emotion, you think about it a lot and feel it strongly, especially when other people might think you are wrong to do so. 放纵;使沉湎于
We are scared to abandon ourselves to our feelings in case we seem weak or out of control. [V pron-refl to n]
我们不敢放纵自己的情感,以免显得太过软弱或缺乏自制。
5N-UNCOUNT [usu withN]放任;放纵 If you say that someone does something with abandon, you mean that they behave in a wild, uncontrolled way and do not think or care about how they should behave. 放任;放纵 [disapproval]
He has spent money with gay abandon.
他肆意挥霍钱财。
Their permissiveness toward their children reflects the wild abandon of their own lives.