give way

英 [ɡɪv weɪ] 美 [ɡɪv weɪ]

• 撤退； 让路； 屈服； 失去控制； 倒塌

英英释义

Verb:

1. move in order to make room for someone for something;

   "The park gave way to a supermarket"
   "`Move over,' he told the crowd"
   

2. break down, literally or metaphorically;

   "The wall collapsed"
   "The business collapsed"
   "The dam broke"
   "The roof collapsed"
   "The wall gave in"
   "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
   

3. end resistance, as under pressure or force;

   "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
   

4. stop operating or functioning;

   "The engine finally went"
   "The car died on the road"
   "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"
   "The coffee maker broke"
   "The engine failed on the way to town"
   "her eyesight went after the accident"
   

词汇搭配

• give way to despair 打断念头, 深自绝望...
• give way 撤退
• give way to 让位于

近反义词

【近义词】

• succumb 屈从
• yield 生产
• give 给
• break 打碎
• cave in 下陷
• give out 分发
• ease up 缓和
• die 死
• founder 创立者
• collapse （使）倒塌
• fall in 塌陷
• fail 失败
• conk out <俚>出故障
• go bad 变坏
• go 去
• move over 挪开
• break down 分解；发生故障；失败；毁...