throw in the towel

英 [θrəʊ ɪn ðə ˈtaʊəl]

美 [θroʊ ɪn ðə ˈtaʊəl]

承认失败;认输

英英释义

verb

• give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope
  1. In the second round, the challenger gave up
  Synonym:drop outgive upfall by the waysidedrop by the waysidethrow inquitchuck up the sponge

双语例句

• It's a bit early to throw in the towel& you've only just started the job.
  现在放弃为时尚早&你才刚刚开始这项工作。
• It needs a little more patience. don't throw in the towel.
  别放弃，这需要多一点耐心。
• Word expert Charles Funk says an eighteen seventy-four publication called the Slang Dictionary explains throwing in the towel.
  词汇专家查尔斯·芬克说，一本1874年出版的俚语词典解释了throwinthetowel这句短语。
• Remember that it was in the years following the 1987 Black Monday crash that Japanese assets went from being expensive to absurdly overvalued and the Nikkei's dizzy rise to 39,000 forced the bears to throw in the towel.
  记得在1987年黑色星期一股灾过后的几年里，日本的资产价格从昂贵发展到高得离谱，日经指数令人眩晕地飙升至39000点，令看空者大跌眼镜。
• We're never going to persuade them so we might as well throw in the towel now.
  我们决不会说服他们，因此我们不妨现在就认输。
• Or, if things are really bad, they may say they have to throw in the towel.
  或者，如果事情真的很糟糕，他们可能会说要认输了。
• I refuse to throw in the towel because conditions will change.
  我拒绝放弃，因为情况会变化。
• Sandy is in last place throughout the marathon but shen doesn't throw in the towel and keeps running.
  珊蒂在整场马拉松比赛中一直位居最后，但她不认输继续跑着。
• How hard should a web designer fight for a good design decision before they throw in the towel and let a bad design decision happen?
  在设计师们认输并采用一个糟糕的设计策略之前，他应该做出多少努力来维护他的良好的设计决策呢？
• I confess there was more than one moment in 1981 when I felt ready to throw in the towel.
  我坦率承认，在1981年，我不止一次感到要认输了。