词汇释义
renoune UK /rɪˈnaʊns/ US /rɪˈnaʊns/
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1. verb, If you renounce a belief or a way of behaving, you decide and declare publicly that you no longer have that belief or will no longer behave in that way.宣布放弃，抛弃(信仰或行为方式)
2. verb, If you renounce a claim, rank, or title, you officially give it up. 正式放弃(要求、官阶或头衔)
外刊例句
1. Boris Johnson is to renounce his US citizenship, removing a potential obstacle to him becoming British prime minister.(The Guardian)
2. Equally important, when Tony Blair began to worry about the Labour supporters not turning out, he began to renounce the Thatcher inheritance.(The Guardian)
3. Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission, told Viktor Orbán, Hungary's rightwing prime minister, on Thursday that he had to immediately renounce statements suggesting that the reintroduction of capital punishment was being considered.(The Guardian)
4. "If, because of excessive demands by the other side we don't get a result, then the world will understand that the Islamic Republic sought a solution, a compromise and a constructive agreement and that it will not renounce its rights and the greatness of the nation," Zarif said.(The Guardian)
5. And we are currently seeing more sovereignty-reinforcing protest actions; activists have taken steps to renounce Australian citizenship and have attempted to clear customs using Aboriginal passports, as well as the removed themselves from all systems of non-Indigenous governance.(The Guardian - Opinion)
6.If they were to disavow Nick Clegg and renounce the rightwing policies that they are supporting in Westminster, we would be in a different situation," he told the BBC.(The Guardian)
7. Molly White, a Republican state representative for Belton, in central Texas, provoked controversy when she posted on her Facebook page that morning that she "did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws.(The Guardian)
8. A public outcry prompted Mr Varin to renounce a pension pot worth €21m ($29m).(The Economist)
9. He had granite determination: without it, he would have left prison years earlier, just by agreeing to renounce violence or make some other concession.(The Economist)
10. He had had to fight to sit in the Commons at all, campaigning for eight years to renounce the peerage he had inherited from his father.(The Economist)
11. Nor can a school simply renounce its charitable status and the perks that go with it if it finds the new regime too onerous: assets already amassed by a charity must be used for charitable purposes.One solution might be to allow local state schools to use facilities such as theatres, swimming pools and playing fields, and even to send some of their students for lessons.(The Economist)
12. The sheer hassle of dealing with all this is prompting more Americans to renounce their citizenship.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
renounce belief, citizenship, claim, nationality, power, right, throne, violence
词汇来源
late 14c., from Old French renoncier "give up, cede" (12c., Modern French renoncer), from Latin renuntiare "bring back word; proclaim; protest against, renounce," from re- "against" (see re-) + nuntiare "to report, announce," from nuntius "messenger" (from PIE root *neu- "to shout").
近义词
abdicate, abnegate, cede, relinquish, abjure, recant, renege, give up
反义词
defend, guard, protect, safeguard, secure,endorse (also indorse), espouse, maintain, support, uphold, accept, adopt, embrace
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