we should never resign ourselves to being defeated.
我们将永远不甘心于失败。
we must resign ourselves to circumstances.
我们必须顺应环境。
we can either resist until we finally succumb to more powerful external forces, or we can resign ourselves to our fate and yield to death by our own hands.
我们可以持续抵抗,直到我们不得不屈服于外在这更强大的力量,要不然就乾脆向命运低头,自行了断算了。
when snowflake drifts the road we head indoors and resign ourselves to the quiet crackle of the wood fire.
当雪花在路面堆积,我们回到屋内,让自己沉迷在炉火轻微的噼啪声中。
politicians and pundits alike told us that we had to resign ourselves to a new era of 「 limits」.
政客们及权威们对我们说我们只能寄听命于一个新的「极限」时代。
we could not avoid the storm, but we did not passively resign ourselves to fate. instead, we mobilized singaporeans to tackle the crisis together.
我们无法躲避这场风暴,但是也不是被动地听天由命,而是动员人民一起应付危机。
the other person's achievements are beyond us; we must resign ourselves to being inferior.
其他人的成就超过我们,我们必须委曲自己处于下风。