Within a couple of years, I'd given it up.

没过几年，我就放弃了。

You know, many of our friends have given it up just for their families and other people.

你知道，我们的许多朋友就是为了家庭和他人戒烟了。

I had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so tiresome.

我用过一整周学习法律，但是因为它太烦人了而中途放弃。

" You should have given it up like me, shouldn't you? " said Hermione briskly, buttering herself some toast.

“你也像我一样放弃这门课吧，行吗？”赫敏一边往她的面包片上涂黄油，一边轻快地说。

" I have given it up. I don't care now" .

“我已经放弃了，我现在不在乎” 。

Politicians had tacitly given it up.

政客们默许了它。

" The telegraph? H'm. Ay, I heard that Brede he's given it up" .

“电报？嗯。嗯，我听说 Brede 他已经放弃了” 。

I would've given it up for him no problem.

我肯定会为他献身的。

When I saw how many were waiting, I would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear of it.

当我看到那么多的人在等着，我感到很失望，真想放弃算了。只是，斯波尔丁当时怎么也不答应。

I was almost afraid you'd given it up: in which case I should have made a personal wentur.

我几乎担心你会放弃它：在这种情况下，我应该亲自去看看。

Truth to tell, Oline was grown too old now to keep house and tend cattle at Maaneland; she ought to have given it up.

老实说，奥琳现在年纪太大了， 不能在马内兰看家养牛了。 她应该放弃的。

From time to time, when we have found out that some piece of work was too disagreeable or troublesome, we have given it up and done altogether without the thing produced by it.

有时，当我们发现某件工作太不愉快或太麻烦时，我们就放弃了它，完全没有它产生的东西。

Yet, he had given it up and followed medicine for the simple reason that he had discovered astrology to be utterly false and, as a man of honest character, he was unwilling to gain his living by beguiling people.

但他放弃了， 转而行医，原因很简单， 因为他发现占星学完全是错误的，而且作为一个诚实的人， 他不愿意靠欺骗人民来谋生。