在話語與爭論裡讓開
最貼近字根的一組：讓開的是「自己原本堅持的立場」。
concede (admit reluctantly) · verb · C2
To say that something is true or correct, even though you wish it were not.
承認
核心畫面
You can picture it as aside on a road: you were blocking the way, the other side kept pushing, and in the end you move and let it through. What gets let through may be a point in an argument, a game, a goal, or a right — but there is always resistance first, then giving way.
「讓路」：你本來站在路中間擋著，對方一直推、一直逼，最後你側身讓開，讓那個東西通過。拉丁字根 concēdō 就是「…更多收起
「讓路」：你本來站在路中間擋著，對方一直推、一直逼，最後你側身讓開，讓那個東西通過。拉丁字根 concēdō 就是「完全讓開、退讓」的意思，所以 concede 的每一個用法裡都有一個「本來不想讓、但撐不住而放行」的動作——讓開的可能是一句話（承認對方說得對）、一場比賽（認輸）、一分球（沒守住）、或一項權利（讓出去）。重點不是大方給予，而是抵抗之後的退讓。From the word’s history
Latin concēdō = con- (wholly) + cēdō (to yield, give way, go). Literally "to step wholly aside". The same cēdō root shows up in recede and proceed.
拉丁 concēdō 由 con-（完全地）+ cēdō（讓開、退讓、走開）組成，字面就是「整個人讓開」。cēdō 這個字根在英文裡到處都是：recede（往後退）、proceed（往前走）、yield 的同義詞群。理解 concede 時，把它讀成「con-（徹底）+ cede（讓開）」，四個用法就會一次通了——不管讓開的是面子、勝利、分數還是權利，動作都是同一個。
Wiktionary, "concede" — from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (con- + cēdō), from PIE *ked- "to go, yield".
Two branches
在勝負裡讓開
同樣是「讓開」，只是讓出的是整場勝負；從讓一句話擴大成讓整個結果。
concede defeat · verb · C2
To say that you are not going to win a game, argument, election, or fight.
認輸
原始詞典資料6 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。
concedeverb/kənˈsiːd/
- 1
To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- I have to concede the argument.
- He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
- 2
To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- 3
To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.
- On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has contributed to. Thus, agency does not necessarily result in one’s own (sinophone or other) learning goals but may mediate others’ socialization, even when the facilitating or socializing agent is not herself an expert in the Chinese language.
- 4
To yield or make concession.
- 5
hobbieslifestylesportsTo have a goal or point scored against
- I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.
- The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal.
- 6
ball-gamescricketgames(of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
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。