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self-surrender

/self-suh-ren-der, self-/US // ˈsɛlf səˈrɛn dər, ˌsɛlf- //

自暴自弃,自首,自降,自降身价

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the surrender or yielding up of oneself, one's will, affections, etc., as to another person, an influence, or a cause.

Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

  • But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

  • Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.