1、give up

放棄；戒除

Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.

海岸警衛隊對兩位潛水員生還已完全不抱希望。

smokers who give up before 30.

30歲以前戒煙的人

投降；認輸；放棄

After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.

他在書桌前徒勞地坐了一上午之后便放棄了。

辭去（工作）

She gave up her job to join her husband's campaign.

她辭去工作，加入到丈夫的宣傳活動中。

He is thinking of giving up teaching.

他在考慮辭去教書的工作。

把…讓給

Georgia refuses to give up any territory.

格魯吉亞拒絕出讓任何領土。

One of the men with him gave up his place on the bench.

他的一個同伴將長椅上的位子讓了出來。

2、contradiction

矛盾;不一致

the contradictions between her private life and the public persona.

她的私生活與公眾形象之間的巨大反差

The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.

在我看來，這次的表現是不可寬恕的，和奧運精神完全相悖。

自相矛盾的說法

A public service run for profit — a contradiction in terms if there ever was one.

以營利為目的的公共服務機構—這是典型的用詞上的自相矛盾（如果真有這種說法的話）。