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quit-rent

英文词源

quit-rent (n.): early 15c., "rent paid by a tenant in exchange for being discharged from required service;" also, "nominal rent as acknowledgment of tenure," from quit (adj.) + rent (n.).

双语例句

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。

2. He quit his job as an office boy in Athens.: 他辞去了在雅典当办公室勤杂工的工作。

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。