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英语单词 abort
英美音标 英 [ə'bɔːt] 美 [ə'bɔːrt]
中文释义 v.流产;堕胎;中止
英语例句 (1) The virus can cause pregnant animals to abort.
(2) The doctor had to abort the baby.
(3) The captain instructed them to abort the mission.
中文例句 (1) 这种病毒可能导致怀孕动物流产。
(2) 医生只好将胎儿引产。
(3) 上尉指示他们中止执行任务。
vocabulary简明 To abort something is to end it. When something is aborted, it's finished.
vocabulary扩展 In a movie, you may have seen people on some kind of mission yelling "Abort! Abort!" That means "Stop!" When you abort a plan or activity, you're ending it, usually prematurely. If you abort a dinner, you cancel it in the middle. If the police abort a raid, they stop it after it has already begun. A writer could abort a novel after writing a chapter or two. You can't abort something that hasn't been started: that's more like canceling or postponing.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]使流产;堕(胎) If an unborn baby is aborted, the pregnancy is ended deliberately and the baby is not born alive.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  [Also V]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Her lover walked out on her after she had aborted their child.

    她的情人在她打掉胎儿后甩了她。

  • ...the latest date at which a foetus can be aborted.

    能够打胎的最迟日期

  • ...tissue from aborted fetuses.

    堕下的胎儿的组织

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[VERB 动词]中止,中辍(计划、活动等) If someone aborts a process, plan, or activity, they stop it before it has been completed.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  • The decision was made to abort the mission...

    决定中止这项任务。

  • The take-off was aborted...

    起飞取消了。

  • A military guard was injured in the aborted coup.

    一位哨兵在这次未遂政变中受伤。

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