quitting

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T/V-I If you quit, or quit your job, you choose to leave it. 辤去 (工作); 辤職[非正式]
He quit his job as an office boy. 他辤去了辦公室勤襍員的工作。
2. V-T If you quit an activity or quit doing something, you stop doing it. 停止[美國英語]
A nicotine spray can help smokers quit the habit. 一種尼古丁噴劑可以幫助吸菸者戒菸。
Quit acting like you didn't know. 別裝得像你不知道似的。
Quit it! That hurts!
戒掉它吧！這東西害人！
3. V-T If you quit a place, you leave it completely and do not go back to it. 徹底離開
Science fiction writers have long dreamed that humans might one day quit the earth to colonize other planets. 科幻小說作家們長期以來一直夢想著人類有一天可以離開地球移居到其它星球上。
4. PHRASE If you say that you are going to call it quits, you mean that you have decided to stop doing something or being involved in something. 叫停
They raised $630,000 through listener donations, and then called it quits. 他們通過聽衆(zhòng)募捐籌集到了63萬美元，之後就叫停了。