“give up the ghost”在英语词典中的解释及翻译

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“give up the ghost”在英语词典中的解释及翻译

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give up the ghost

to die

humorous If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working:

Our old TV had finally given up the ghost.

UK to stop trying to do something because you know that you will not succeed:

All I'd cherished from early childhood had been denied me, so I simply gave up the ghost.

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