withdraw

• vt. 撤退；收回；撤消；拉开
• vi. 撤退；离开

with-,相反，draw,拉。引申词义撤退，取款。

1. pull back or move away or backward;

"The enemy withdrew"

"The limo pulled away from the curb"

2. withdraw from active participation;

"He retired from chess"

3. release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles;

"I want to disengage myself from his influence"

"disengage the gears"

4. cause to be returned;

"recall the defective auto tires"

"The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt"

5. take back what one has said;

"He swallowed his words"

6. keep away from others;

"He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"

7. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;

"remove a threat"

"remove a wrapper"

"Remove the dirty dishes from the table"

"take the gun from your pocket"

"This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

8. break from a meeting or gathering;

"We adjourned for lunch"

"The men retired to the library"

9. retire gracefully;

"He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship"

10. remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

"She drew $2,000 from the account"

"The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"

11. lose interest;

"he retired from life when his wife died"

12. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity;

"We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"

"He backed out of his earlier promise"

"The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"

withdraw (v.)

early 13c. (transitive), "to take back," from with "away" + drawen "to draw," possibly a loan-translation of Latin retrahere "to retract." Intransitive sense from mid-13c. Sense of "to remove oneself" is recorded from c. 1300. Related: Withdrawn; withdrawing.

retire, retreat, withdraw

这些动词均含"退下，退却"之意。

retire： 指从公开或公共场合退下到私下场所，也指被免除职务或自动辞职、退役等。

retreat： 含消极意味，多指被迫采取退下或退却的行动。

withdraw： 侧重因某种原因而有意离开，常含礼貌、谦恭等理由。也指军队的撤退。

Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools in favor of home schooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children.

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News of delayed reward will induce the reader to prepare for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to withdraw from the reality.

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When he selects news of the other kind, he usually withdraws from the world of threatening reality toward the dream world.

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Government troops were forced to withdraw.

政府部队被迫撤走了。

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Both powers withdrew their forces from the region.

两个大国都把部队撤离了这个地区。

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She withdrew her hand from his.

她把手从他的手里抽了回来。

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Workers have threatened to withdraw their labour (= go on strike) .

工人扬言要罢工。

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The drug was withdrawn from sale after a number of people suffered serious side effects.

这药因许多人服后产生严重副作用而被停止销售。

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He withdrew his support for our campaign.

他停止了对我们运动的支持。

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There have been calls for Britain to withdraw from the EU.

一直有人呼吁英国退出欧盟。

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The horse had been withdrawn from the race.

那匹马被停赛了。

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I'd like to withdraw £250 please.

劳驾，我想提取250英镑。

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The newspaper withdrew the allegations the next day.

这家报纸第二天收回了这些说法。

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She's beginning to withdraw into herself.

她开始变得不爱与人交往了。

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He reached into his pocket and withdrew a sheet of notepaper...

他把手伸进口袋，掏出一张便签。

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Cassandra withdrew her hand from Roger's.

卡桑德拉将手从罗杰手里抽了回来。

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He stated that all foreign forces would withdraw as soon as the crisis ended...

他声明危机一结束，所有外国军队都将撤离。

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Unless Hitler withdrew his troops from Poland by 11 o'clock that morning, a state of war would exist between Great Britain and Germany...

如果希特勒那天上午11点前不从波兰撤兵，英德两国便将处于战争状态。

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Open a savings account that does not charge ridiculous fees to withdraw money...

开一个取款时不会乱收费的储蓄账户。

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They withdrew 100 dollars from a bank account after checking out of their hotel.

他们在旅馆结账后，从银行账户中取了100美元。

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He and the others withdrew to their rented rooms...

他和其他人回到了他们租住的房间。

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He poured the wine and then withdrew again...

他斟完酒，然后就又退下了。

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The African National Congress threatened to withdraw from the talks.

非洲国民大会威胁要退出会谈。

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He withdrew his remarks and explained what he had meant to say.

他收回所说的话，然后又解释他本来想说什么。

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You can simply withdraw your deposit , along with your interest.

你可以只是取出押金和利息.

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Withdraw dirty banknotes from circulation.

收回肮脏的钞票使之不再流通.

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Left as passive, bored spectators, students withdraw intellectually and simply the motions necessary to the course.

结果学生成了被动又感到无聊的旁观者, 他们不再动脑思考,只是敷衍了事地修完课程.

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