| 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 | 1 [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]
2 [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]
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