abdicate
v. 退位；放弃（责任），失（职）；放弃
第三人称单数 abdicates
现在分词 abdicating
过去式 abdicated
过去分词 abdicated
例句
King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted "kings don't abdicate, they die in their sleep".
西班牙国王胡安卡洛斯曾坚称：“国王们没有退位，他们在睡梦中去世了。”
Expensive things are not inevitably the province of the rich unless we abdicate society's power of choice.
昂贵的东西不一定是富人的专利，除非我们放弃社会的选择权。
She was forced to abdicate the throne of Spain.
她被迫让出西班牙的王位。
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