掌握英语习语：从努力到放弃an A for effort

an A for effortFig. acknowledgement for having tried to do something, even if it was not successful.（喻）尽管没成功，但对付出的努力表示认可、精神可嘉。(*Typically: get ~; give someone ~.)（常用搭配：get an A for effort 得到努力奖；give someone an A for effort 表扬某人的努力）The plan didn’t work, but I’ll give you an A for effort for trying.计划没成功，但我还是要为你的尝试给你个 “努力奖”。A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.男人该做的事就得去做。Go to You got to do what you got to do.参见 You got to do what you got to do.（你该做的事就得去做。）Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.Prov. If you come in, be prepared for the worst.（谚）进来的人，放弃一切希望吧。（谚）一旦进来，就要做好最坏的打算。(Describes a hopeless situation or one somehow similar to hell. Often used jocularly. This is the English translation of the words on the gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno.)（形容毫无希望的境地，或类似地狱的场景。常带调侃意味。这是但丁《神曲・地狱篇》中地狱大门上文字的英文翻译。）This is our cafeteria. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!这就是我们的食堂。进来的人，放弃希望吧！abandon oneself to somethingto yield to the comforts or delights of something.沉湎于某事；尽情享受某事；放任自己沉浸在某种感受中。The children abandoned themselves to the delights of the warm summer day.孩子们尽情享受着温暖夏日带来的欢乐。abandon shipLit. to leave a sinking ship.字面：弃船，离开正在沉没的船。The captain ordered the crew and passengers to abandon ship.船长命令船员和乘客弃船。Fig. to leave a failing enterprise.比喻：离开濒临失败的事业 / 集体；抽身离开。A lot of the younger people are abandoning ship because they can get jobs elsewhere easily.很多年轻人正在纷纷离开，因为他们在别处很容易找到工作。abandon someone or something to someone or somethingto leave a person, living creature, or thing to the care of someone or something;to give up someone or something to someone or something.把某人 / 某物丢给某人 / 某物照料；将某人 / 某物抛弃给……(Usually with the thought that the abandoned person or thing will not receive the best of care.)（通常暗含被抛弃者 / 物不会得到很好照料的意味。）They had to abandon the dogs to the storm.他们不得不把狗丢在暴风雨中任凭其自生自灭。