A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
放弃
Abandon
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
男人最大的责任不是对他的父亲，而是对他的妻子;为了那个女人的缘故，他放弃了一切世俗的联系，万一这些联系中有什么妨碍了这种关系的话。
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
因此，当我仔细考虑这个问题时，由于我的观点的新奇和明显的荒谬，我不得不害怕受到轻视，这几乎使我完全放弃了我已经开始的工作。
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
我并不是建议人们放弃乐器，开始玩汽车和公寓，但我确实认为，音乐作为一种仅由专业人士制作的商品的统治地位可能正在逐渐衰落。
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
对所有纯科学的艺术的承认并不意味着对所有现有艺术的放弃，而是意味着已经开始的艺术改造的完成。
The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
我们给自己规定的任务仅仅是表明我们为什么和为了什么而在生活的大部分时间里坚持这一立场，以及我们为什么和为了什么而暂时不得不放弃这一立场。
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
当一种新的税收来源被发现时，实际上并不意味着旧的税收来源被抛弃。这仅仅意味着政客们有两种方式榨取纳税人的钱，而以前他们只有一种。
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. (attributed)
不要被世界的巨大悲痛所吓倒。做公正,现在。爱怜悯,现在。谦卑地走,现在。你没有义务完成这项工作，但你也没有自由放弃它。(认为)
I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
我认为，通过说“不”并解释我的理由，我的雇主就会放弃他的社交建议。然而，令我遗憾的是，在接下来的几个星期里，他继续几次约我出去。
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
事实上，每一个思想家，每一个哲学家，当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候，就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。
‘Before she came,’ said a soldier, ‘there was cuss in’ and swear in’, but after that it was ’oly as a church.’ The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.
“在她来之前，”一个士兵说，“人们骂她，骂她，骂她，但是在那以后，教堂就变成了教堂。为了南丁格尔小姐，这个战士最宝贵的特权被放弃了。
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
当新的灵性开始成为这个星球上无处不在的灵性时，我们会发现我们已经抛弃了我们的矛盾哲学，在这种哲学中，我们说我们都是一个整体，但仍在努力争取胜利。
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
我爸爸为我牺牲了很多东西。他放弃了一份很有前途、很赚钱的军官工作，只是为了能继续帮助我下棋，陪我参加锦标赛。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
我永远不会写现实主义散文。我不喜欢那些试图以诗歌风格写作的人，但在他们的书中，他们放弃了这种风格，转而追求现实主义，像醉汉一样在超现实与真实之间来回穿梭。
There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
没有理由改变这个制度。我认为我们不会放弃它。对我们来说，最重要的是后面要紧凑。这就是我们在这里要打的比赛，要打败我们是非常困难的。
I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
我是一个艺术家，我需要进入自己的内心，发挥创造力，成为别人，这是我的一部分。我想我不会完全放弃。
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
艺术家从来没有真正完成他的作品，他只是放弃了它。
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
我母亲一生中拯救了数百只动物。无论她在哪里遇到受伤的、需要帮助的或被遗弃的动物，她都会把它带回家。
But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
但当这一切真的发生的时候，我却被深深地吸引了，我在等待那一刻，因为当生命抛弃了你，死神降临的那一刻，那一刻一定非常美妙，不是吗?