surrender

• vt. 使投降；放棄；交出；聽任
• vi. 投降；屈服；自首
• n. 投降；放棄；交出；屈服

sur-,在上，向上，render,給回，返還，給予，遞交。原指放棄，交出，後引申詞義投降，屈 服等，且成為主要詞義。詞義演變比較 give up.

surrender

surrender: [15] To surrender is etymologically to ‘give up’. The word was borrowed from Old French surrendre ‘deliver over, give up’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sur- ‘over’ and rendre ‘give, deliver’ (source of English render).
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surrender (v.)

mid-15c., "to give (something) up," from Old French surrendre "give up, deliver over" (13c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + rendre "give back" (see render (v.)). Reflexive sense of "to give oneself up" (especially as a prisoner) is from 1580s. Related: Surrendered; surrendering.

surrender (n.)

early 15c., in law, "a giving up" (of an estate, land grant, interest in property, etc.), from Anglo-French surrendre, Old French surrendre noun use of infinitive, "give up, deliver over" (see surrender (v.)).

1. Which do they want me to do? declare war or surrender?

他們想讓我做什麽，宣戰還是投降？

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2. The rebels are emphatic that this is not a surrender.

叛亂者堅稱這並不是投降。

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3. General Martin Bonnet called on the rebels to surrender.

馬丁·邦尼特將軍呼籲反叛者投降。

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4. Depression is a partial surrender to death.

沮喪是對死亡的一定妥協。

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5. They had no thought of surrender.

他們沒有想過要投降。

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