1550s, "a disowning," from Latin abdicationem (nominative abdicatio) "renunciation, abdication," noun of action from past participle stem of abdicare (see abdicate); sense of "resignation of sovereignty" is from 1680s.
雙語例句
1. There had been a complete abdication of responsibility.
曾經一度完全無人負責。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The officers took over and forced his abdication in 1947.
1947年軍官們接管了政權并迫使他退了位.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Abdication is precluded by the lack of a possible successor.
因為沒有可能的繼承人,讓位無法實現(xiàn).
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. American abdication would tempt Soviet tendencies toward filling every vacuum.
美國的退位將使蘇聯(lián)想要填補每一個真空.
來自辭典例句
5. This almost formal abdication of fatherhood hurt him.