英语释义

• give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat;

  "In the second round, the challenger gave up"

片语

give up halfway半途而废；中途放弃

英汉例句

• cambridge energy research associates, a firm of consultants, reckons that 5.5m b/d of additions to capacity will fall by the wayside around the world in the next few years.

  剑桥能源研究所这家咨询公司估计未来数年内全球将有总量达550万桶/天的增产计划半途而废。

• but, of course, resolutionsoften fall by the wayside – i recently read an anecdotal statistic that95% of new year’s resolutions are never followed through.

  但，经常的，决心中途夭折了。 --我最近读到一条有趣的数据---95%的新年决心根本没人去做。

• albert gore jr. apparently ready to fall by the wayside – he can focus on jesse jackson one-on-one.

  在那儿-戈尔参议员已经差不多被淘汰了-他可以集中精力一对一与杰克逊周旋。

• there's a high cost in kids who, for internal or external reasons, fall by the wayside in the extremes of both parenting approaches.

  无论是内在的还是外在的原因，孩子往往达不到两种家庭教育方式（中美两种教育方式——译者注）的极致状态，半途而废，付出了高昂的代价。

• it is worth bearing in mind that if many more older people were to stay on in the formal economy, some of the things they now do outside it and without monetary reward would fall by the wayside .

  值得牢记的是如果许多年长者继续逗留在正规的经济体中，而现在他们在经济体之外所做的事情以及没有金钱的回报将会半途而废。

• when deadlines are pressing, letting your organizational habits fall by the wayside and focusing on the work itself is all too easy.

  当截止日迫近，我们就很容易让那套习惯半途而废，然后专注工作。

• for others, though, maybe the pajama trend is born of allowing some aspects of our lives to fall by the wayside in favor of other, more important things, than our appearance.

  不 过对其他人来说，或许睡衣潮流的诞生是因为我们生活的一些方面已经靠边站了，让位于比我们的外表更重要的东西。