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To cede something is to give it to another country or person — land, a right, control — especially when you do not really want to. You cede because you lost a war, signed a treaty, or had no choice. It is a formal, legal and news word. You would not cede your sandwich. People also say a team ceded a goal, or a company ceded market share; that is the same idea stretched: you let the other side have it. The noun for the act, especially of land, is .
割讓(土地、權利等,多半不是心甘情願的)
組成Borrowed from French, from Latin cēdō, “to yield” or “to go away”.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cedeverb/siːd/
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To give up; yield to another.
- Edward decided to cede the province.
- In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.
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To give up; yield to another.
- After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle.
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To give way.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。