He felt like a man who could not swim, and wades in deepening water. He must send somebody to Homburg, or abandon all thought of his money. Why abandon it? Why not return to Ina Klosking? His judgment, alarmed at the accumulating difficulties, began to intrude its voice. What was he turning his back on? A woman, lovely, loving, and celebrated, who was very likely pining for him, and would share, not only her winnings at play with him, but the large income she would make by her talent. What was he following?英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
They cleaned out the cabin and took possession of it, and the next time they went to town Cash made cautious inquiries about the place. It was, he learned, an old abandoned claim. Abandoned chiefly because the old miner who had lived there died one day, and left behind him all the marks of having died from starvation, mostly. A cursory examination of his few belongings had revealed much want, but no gold save a little coarse dust in a small bottle.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
You now have your twenty-three thousand men, and General Hooker is in close support, so that you can hold all of Jos. Johnston's army in check should he abandon Dalton. He cannot afford to abandon Dalton, for he has fixed it up on purpose to receive us, and he observes that we are close at hand, waiting for him to quit. He cannot afford a detachment strong enough to fight you, as his army will not admit of it.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-2》
tell me what he says. Why has he abandoned me? He has not abandoned me! O God! what have I done? what have I done?"
Before that letter was half read, or rather sobbed, out to her, Grace tore off all her bridal ornaments and trampled them under her feet, and moaned, and twisted, and writhed as if her body was being tortured as well as her heart; for Henry was true as ever, and she had married a villain. She took the letter from Jael, and devoured every word; though she was groaning and sobbing with the wildest agony all the time. "NEW YORK, July 18th.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
Abandon, abandon, thy headlong career - But downward thou rushest--my words are in vain, Bethink thee that oft-changing winds domineer On the billowy breast of the time-serving main.英文原著 · 《Romantic Ballads》
She got no answer; the marquis, absorbed in thought, was listening in fancy to the prophetic reasons which Marie had given him in the midst of the same chiefs at La Vivetiere, urging him to abandon the struggle of kings against peoples. But the young man's soul was too proud, too lofty, too full perhaps of conviction, to abandon an enterprise he had once begun, and he decided at this moment, to continue it boldly in the face of all obstacles. He raised his head haughtily, and for the first time noticed that Madame du Gua was speaking to him.英文原著 · 《The Chouans》
I will knock you from here to Rudolph's house if you abandon me.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You abandon me on Christmas the day after my father abandons me on Thanksgiving?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Max, I know your idea of a country club's an abandoned car in the woods,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Oh, and this is my German pill in case they release the bombs or I'm ever abandoned in space.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》