quit

1. V-T/V-I If you quit, or quit your job, you choose to leave it. 辭去 (工作); 辭職[非正式]

He quit his job as an office boy. 他辭去了辦公室勤雜員的工作。

2. V-T If you quit an activity or quit doing something, you stop doing it. 停止[美國(guó)英語(yǔ)]

A nicotine spray can help smokers quit the habit. 一種尼古丁噴劑可以幫助吸煙者戒煙。

Quit acting like you didn't know. 別裝得像你不知道似的。

Quit it! That hurts!

戒掉它吧！這東西害人！

3. V-T If you quit a place, you leave it completely and do not go back to it. 徹底離開(kāi)

Science fiction writers have long dreamed that humans might one day quit the earth to colonize other planets. 科幻小說(shuō)作家們長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)一直夢(mèng)想著人類(lèi)有一天可以離開(kāi)地球移居到其它星球上。

4. PHRASE If you say that you are going to call it quits, you mean that you have decided to stop doing something or being involved in something. 叫停

They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits. 他們通過(guò)聽(tīng)眾募捐籌集到了63萬(wàn)美元，之后就叫停了。