quit
/kwɪt/ (bre, ipa) · /kwɪt/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈkwit/ (ame, mw)
quit — 動詞
- quitpresent simple I / you / we / they
- quitshe / she / it
- quittedpast simple
- quitting-ing form
1. To decide that you will no longer take part in an activity, hold a job, or conti
辭職；戒除
停止工作、活動或習慣
To decide that you will no longer take part in an activity, hold a job, or continue a habit you used to have.
Apinya quit her job at the pharmacy after ten years and started her own shop.
Apinya 在藥局工作了十年後辭職，自己開了一家店。
quit + noun (job / school / position)
After the doctor showed him the scan results, Zayd quit smoking the very next day.
醫生把掃描結果給他看過之後，Zayd 隔天就戒了菸。
quit + gerund (quit smoking / quit complaining)
Javier took piano lessons for three months before deciding to quit.
Javier 上了三個月的鋼琴課後決定不學了。
Madison quit the chess club when the meetings started running past ten o'clock every night.
Madison 退出西洋棋社，因為會議每晚都開到十點以後。
文法句型
quit + noun/pronoun
quit + gerund
quit (intransitive)
用法筆記
Frequently used with a gerund (quit + verb-ing) to talk about stopping a habit. The past tense is quit, not quitted — the form never changes.
常見錯誤
2. To go away from a place where you have been living or staying, especially with t
離開；離去
離開居住或停留的地點
To go away from a place where you have been living or staying, especially with the idea of not returning soon.
Élise quit the village where she had been raised and never looked back.
Élise 離開了她長大的村莊，再也沒有回去過。
The soldiers were ordered to quit the town before sunrise the following morning.
士兵奉命在隔天日出前撤離小鎮。
quit + place (formal register)
After the factory closed, many families quit the region and moved south for work.
工廠關閉後，許多家庭離開了該地區，搬到南方找工作。
Eitan quit the crowded city for a small cabin in the mountains.
Eitan 離開了擁擠的城市，搬到山裡的小木屋居住。
文法句型
quit + place
用法筆記
This sense is more formal or literary than sense 1. It typically names a location (city, country, home) as the object and suggests a permanent or long-term departure.
3. To walk away from someone or end your time with a group of people, often because
離開；退出
因不滿離開某人身邊或群體
To walk away from someone or end your time with a group of people, often because you are frustrated or no longer wish to stay.
After the heated argument, Wren quit the dinner table and went straight up to her room.
激烈的爭吵過後，Wren 離開了餐桌，逕直上樓回房間。
quit + person's company (social setting)
Andrés quit the committee after his proposal was rejected for the third time.
Andrés 的提案第三次被否決後，他便退出了委員會。
Hana saw that her friends were mocking the new student, so she quit their table in disgust.
Hana 看到朋友們在嘲笑新來的同學，便厭惡地離開了那張桌子。
The children quit the game when their older brother kept changing the rules.
孩子們因為哥哥一直改規則而退出了遊戲。
- leave
Neutral; works for any social situation without implying frustration.
- walk out on
Informal and more dramatic; suggests abandoning someone in a difficult moment.
文法句型
quit + person
quit + group
用法筆記
Less common in everyday speech than sense 1. The object is usually a group, a gathering, or a social situation rather than an individual person.
quit — 形容詞
- quitpositive
- quitercomparative
- quitestsuperlative
1. Freed from having to deal with an obligation or a person that was a burden.
免除；擺脫
不再受義務或債務束縛
Freed from having to deal with an obligation or a person that was a burden.
Once the last loan payment was made, the family was finally quit of all their debts.
最後一筆貸款還清後，這家人終於擺脫了所有債務。
pattern: quit of [obligation]
The villagers said they were well quit of the corrupt landlord who had moved abroad.
村民們說，那個貪婪的地主搬到國外去，他們總算甩掉了這個麻煩。
Astrid felt quit of her responsibility after she handed the charity accounts to the new treasurer.
Astrid 把慈善帳目交給新任財務長後，覺得自己卸下了責任。
After paying off her student loans, Lin was quit of that crushing debt at last.
Lin 還清助學貸款之後，終於甩掉了那筆沉重的債務。
文法句型
quit of [someone/something]
well quit of [someone/something]
用法筆記
Almost always occurs in the fixed phrase quit of or well quit of. The expression well quit of carries a tone of relief: the speaker is glad to be rid of the person or thing.
常見錯誤
quit — 名詞
1. A voluntary departure from a job, used especially in the fixed phrase hand in on
辭職
辭去工作的行為
A voluntary departure from a job, used especially in the fixed phrase hand in one's quit and in employment statistics.
Brian handed in his quit after the boss refused to discuss the pay raise they had promised.
老闆拒絕討論先前承諾的加薪後，Brian 便遞出了辭呈。
set phrase: hand in one's quit
The company saw a record number of quits last year among workers under thirty.
去年該公司三十歲以下的員工辭職人數創下新高。
Anjali was shocked when her manager accepted her quit on the very same afternoon.
Anjali 很驚訝，經理當天下午就批准了她的辭職申請。
Eshe told her colleagues about her quit during the morning coffee break.
Eshe 在早上的咖啡休息時間告訴同事她要辭職了。
- resignation
Formal and standard; used in official contexts and business writing.
- departure
More general; can refer to leaving any position or role, not just employment.
- appointment
The act of being given a job or position.
- employment
The state of having a paid job.
文法句型
hand in one's quit
用法筆記
Chiefly North American and informal. The phrase hand in one's quit is a set expression. In more formal contexts, use resignation instead.