quitter
/kwit-er/US // ˈkwɪt ər //UK // (ˈkwɪtə) //
辞职者,退出者,辍学者,戒烟者
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who quits or gives up easily, especially in the face of some difficulty, danger, etc.
Synonyms & Antonyms
noundefeatist
Examples
"The good people of Missouri nominated me, and I'm not a quitter," Akin told Huckabee.
Mrs. Tyler issued a statement branding Clarke as a “weak-kneed quitter,” and repudiating him entirely.
But a girl who allows herself to take this attitude is a "quitter," and doesn't know the first principles of playing the game.
Quitter, kwit′ėr, n. a fistulous sore on the quarters or the heel of the coronet of a horse's hoof.
And yet, if he wasn't a quitter, what was the matter with him?
"I knew youse couldn't be a quitter and John Beaudry's son," he continued.
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