quit

英 [kwɪt] 美[kwɪt]

反义词

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中频词核心词汇

第三人称单数: quits;过去式: quitted; quit;过去分词: quitted; quit;现在分词: quitting;

quit 离开，离职

来自拉丁语quietus,安静的，平和的，词源同quite.引申词义免于干扰，免于麻烦，后用于指自由的，释放的，结清债务的。并引申动词词义离开，离职等。比较acquit,requite.

quit: quit: [13] Quit comes from the same ultimate source as quiet – Latin quiētus. This originally meant simply ‘quiet, calm’, but in medieval Latin it developed a wider range of senses, including ‘unharmed’ and ‘free’. From it was derived the verb quiētāre ‘set free, discharge’, which reached English via Old French quiter. The derived forms acquit and requite [16] come from the same source, and quite is essentially the same word as quit.
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quit (v.): c. 1200, "to repay, discharge" (a debt, etc.), from Old French quiter "clear, establish one's innocence;" also transitive, "release, let go, relinquish, abandon" (12c.), from quite (see quit (adj.)).

Meaning "to reward, give reward" is mid-13c., that of "take revenge; to answer, retort" and "to acquit oneself" are late 14c. From c. 1300 as "to acquit (of a charge), declare not guilty." Sense of "leave, depart" is attested from c. 1400; that of "stop" (doing something) is from 1640s. Meaning "to give up, relinquish" is from mid-15c. Related: Quitted; quitting. Quitting time is from 1835.
quit (adj.): c. 1200, "free, clear" (of debt, etc.), from Old French quite, quitte "free, clear, entire, at liberty; discharged; unmarried," from Medieval Latin quitus, quittus, from Latin quietus "free" (in Medieval Latin "free from war, debts, etc."), also "calm, resting" (see quiet (adj.)).

1. Well, parenthetically, I was trying to quit smoking at the time.: 嗯，插一句，我那时正在努力戒烟。

3. He did not quit as France's prime minister of his own accord.: 他辞去法国总理职务并非出于自愿。

4. She quit school as soon as she had taken her GCSEs.: 她一拿到普通中等教育证书后就没再上学了。

5. Police were called when he refused to quit the building.: 他拒绝离开那座大楼，于是人们叫来了警察。