quit的基本意思是“离开”,强调脱离或摆脱那些控制或纠缠着人们或给人造成负担的事物。可用作不及物动词或及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词作宾语。
quit还可作“停止”解,指活动的最后停止,有时指被动的停止。可用作不及物动词或及物动词,用作及物动词时,常接名词、代词或动名词作宾语。可用于被动结构。
quit的过去式和过去分词是quit/quit,也可以是quitted/quitted,前者是美国用法,后者是英国用法。
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。
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。
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。
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。