ceding

英 [ˈsiːdɪŋ]

美 [ˈsiːdɪŋ]

v.  割让; 让给; 转让
cede的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 割让(领土);放弃(权力)
  If someone in a position of authoritycedesland or powertosomeone else, they let them have the land or power, often as a result of military or political pressure.
  1. Only a short campaign took place in Puerto Rico, but after the war Spain ceded the island to America...
     在波多黎各的战事很短暂;但是战争结束后，西班牙将该岛屿割让给了美国。
  2. The General had promised to cede power by January.
     将军允诺于一月份之前交出兵权。

英英释义

noun

• the act of ceding
  Synonym:cession

双语例句

• While China may be ceding ground to Mexico in auto manufacturing for now, the race is far from over.
  尽管眼下中国可能正在汽车制造业向墨西哥割让领地，但这场角逐还远没有结束。
• Fortune: In closing stores in many smaller markets, do you not risk ceding the opportunity in such locations to rivals like Michael Kors, which is expanding?
  《财富》：在许多规模较小的市场关闭门店，你们会不会因此把当地的机会拱手让给迈克尔高司这类正在扩大门店网络规模的竞争对手？
• By ceding 6% of their company, startups get an investor, credibility in the startup community, and communion with other founders who are going through the same masochistic slog as they are.
  通过出让公司6%的股份，初创公司获得了一位投资人，在初创公司群体中较高的可信度以及与其他艰难前行的创业者交流的机会。
• There is no avoiding war, one merely postpones it, and in most cases to his own disadvantage, in ceding this part and that bit to exchange for another party's tolerance or support.
  战争是无可避免的，通过割让这个那个来交换另一方的容忍或支持，一方只是在拖延战争，而大多数情况下是朝对己方不利的方向。
• Some politicians, including the head of the congressional committee that oversees the SEC, worry about ceding standard-setting power to the IASB.
  包括监管SEC的国会委员会会长在内的一些政客担心这会使制定标准的权力落入国际会计准则委员会手中。
• Similar good fortune happened 400 years later during the battle of Waterloo, another heroic victory for Britain ( in fact mainly for Prussia, but see above about ceding credit).
  同样的好运也发生在400年后的滑铁卢战役中，这是英国（实际上主要是普鲁士，但理由同上）取得的又一次英勇胜利。
• The old powers have been swept aside and it will be many decades before China comes close to ceding its position as the biggest spender on construction, whether on residential, commercial or infrastructure projects, Mr Robinson added.
  昔日的列强已被排挤到一边，要再过好几十年，中国才有可能失去建筑业最大支出者的地位，无论是就住宅、商业，还是就基础设施项目而言，罗宾逊表示。
• But for now it is ceding more sophisticated engineering to Volvo's Swedish operations, an aspect of the plan that could help allay fears of lost jobs in Sweden.
  不过，目前公司同意将把生产高端发动机的工作留在瑞典，以此缓和瑞典方面对工作流失的担忧。
• It would be a shame to head down the UK's road by ceding global leadership to generate short-term cost savings.
  遗憾的是它正在沿着英国的道路前行，为了谋求短期的节省成本而放弃世界的领导权。
• As a Java developer, I've gotten quite used to ceding all memory issues to the language.
  作为Java开发人员，我已经习惯于让语言来解决所有的内存问题。