动词搭配 “give up” 的基本意思是 “放弃，停止做某事”，后面可接名词，即 “give up something”；也可以接现在分词，即 “give up doing something”，意思也是 “停止做某事”。

在谈论改掉不良习惯的语境中，“give up” 还有 “戒掉...” 的含义。比如，“to give up smoking 戒烟”。

例句

This year, I'm definitely going to give up smoking.

今年，我一定得把烟给戒掉。

I tried learning to play the guitar, but I didn't like practising so I just gave up.

我试着学弹吉它，但因为不喜欢练习，所以就放弃了。

Once I saw that film about vegetarianism, it was easy to give up eating meat.

在我看了那部讲素食主义的电影之后，放弃吃肉变得很容易。