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单词 turn one's back on
释义

turn one's back on

1Ignore (someone) by turning away from them.Jessie's already in the gym, and when she sees me walk in with Eva she just turns her back on me and IGNORES me....
  • You just had to walk away, turn your back on me, ignore me.
  • Rather oddly, the fireman sporting a handlebar moustache about to sip a saucer of hot cocoa is ignoring the fire ragtag behind him and turns his back on two colleagues who are tackling it.
1.1Reject or abandon (a person or thing that one was previously involved with): she turned her back on her career to devote her life to animals...
  • I have got a job and have turned my back on my previous lifestyle.
  • Here is a gentleman who wants to turn his back on his previous lifestyle and looks to the future with some hope.
  • But she had thrown them away, turned her back on them to chase heroism.

Synonyms

abandon, give up, have done with, throw up;
reject, renounce, repudiate
informal quit, pack in, jack in
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