concede defeat
常见例句
- Conceding defeat would be a profound step to take in a country more reverent of its military history than perhaps any other in Europe.
對於一個比歐洲任何其他國家都要對其軍事歷史引以爲豪的國家而言,承認失敗將意味深刻。 - Nokia, for example, spent years trying to break into Japan’s big but idiosyncratic mobile-handset market with its rest-of-the-world-beating products before finally conceding defeat.
比方說諾基亞在承認失敗之前,花費了大量時間用其特有的産品(存疑)試圖打開日本龐大但是極爲特殊的手持移動設備市場。 - Mr. Tsujihara described the new disc as an elegant way for studios to make their content available more widely "in a way that is not conceding defeat" for the format they have been backing.
凱文解釋說對於制片商來講這種新型碟片可以讓他們的作品更加容易推廣,而且就算他們支持的制式最終失敗了也用不著承認。 - For the government, conceding defeat in the face of this confusion and easing up on deportations must seem just as difficult as forcing them through.
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