discard

vt. 抛弃；放弃；丢弃

vi. 放弃

n. 抛弃；被丢弃的东西或人

vt.

丢弃，抛弃；解雇；出牌；

n.

被抛弃的人[物]；丢弃，抛弃；打出的牌；打出的牌

vi.

出无用的牌；垫牌；

变形

过去式：discarded过去分词：discarded现在分词：discarding第三人称单数：discards

双语释义

vt. 丢弃,抛弃 throw out or away

vt. 不再使用 stop using

英英释义

discard[ dis'kɑ:d, 'diskɑ:d ]

n.

anything that is cast aside or discarded

(cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or to failing to follow suit

getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

同义词：throwing away

v.throw or cast away

同义词：flingtosstoss outtoss awaychuck outcast asidedisposethrow outcast outthrow awaycast awayput away

词组短语

into the discard废弃不用；被遗弃

同近义词辨析

preclude排除

discard丢弃，抛弃（可指人也可指物）

abandon放弃（某物）

eliminate消除，淘汰

abolish（依法）废除

dismiss解雇

missing错过

discard舍弃

ignore忽视

这组词都有“抛弃、丢弃”的意思，其区别是：

shed指毛发、皮肤、叶等经过某种自然的过程而脱落。

scrap指抛弃过时不再有用的东西。

discard指把具体的东西抛掉不要，着重扔、丢的动作。

双语例句

用作及物动词(vt.)

He discarded his winter clothing.
他把冬天穿的衣服都丢弃了。

My mother-in-law would discard them on the spot.
我的岳母是会当场把它们扔掉的。

History discarded him.
他被历史所抛弃。

用作不及物动词(vi.)

You've got to discard before you can pick up another card.
你得先打出一张牌，才能拿另一张牌。

权威例句

discard (v.)

1590s, literally "to throw a card away," from dis- "away" + card (n.). Figurative use (in a non-gaming sense) is first recorded 1580s. In the card-playing sense, decard is attested by 1550s. Related: Discarded; discarding. As a noun, from 1742.

1. While it’s not the most common of tasks, we certainly want to allow a user to discard all the changes she has made after opening or creating a document, so this action should be explicitly supported.

使用者有可能在创建或者编辑过某个文档后想放弃所做的修改，这可能不是最常见的操作，但是我们还是应该明确支持这种行为。

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2. It’s easier to discard your work and try another approach when you don’t have a lot of effort invested.

在没有投入过多的精力和金钱之前，要改变或者放弃现在的工作而尝试新的方法，还是相对容易的。

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3. Dirac was unwilling to discard his equations.

狄刺克不愿意抛弃他的方程。

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4. If she wants, she can make tracked or one-off copies of it, rename it, discard any changes she’s made, or change the file format.

只要她愿意，她可以创建文件的副本或者只保留一个副本。 她也可以放弃之前所做出的修改，或者改变文件格式。

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5. Simply put, it doesn’t matter if the application’s assumptions are wrong; it has enough spare power to make several assumptions and discard the results of the bad ones when the user finally makes his choice.

简单而言，如果程序的假设是错的也没关系，它有足够的空闲能力做出几个假设，而在用户最终做出选择时放弃那些糟糕假设的结果。

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6. Experts rarely use them, and beginners soon desire to discard these embarrassing reminders of their ignorance. But the perpetual intermediate majority is perpetually stuck with them. Design Principle

专家级用户很少使用它们，而新手则希望尽快摆脱这些令人不安的有关他们无知的提示，但是永久的中间用户则需要永久地面对它们。

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7. Most applications discard their stack of undo actions when the user closes the document or the application. This is very shortsighted on the application’s part. Instead, the application could write the undo stack to a file.

在用户关闭文档或者程序时，多数程序放弃其撤销堆栈，这是非常短视的行为；相反，程序可以将撤销堆栈写入文件。

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8. When the need arises to discard mutual exclusivity in order to provide multiple selection, things can become confusing if some of the items can be scrolled out of sight.

当为了提供多重选择而需要抛弃相互排斥性时，如果有些条目会被滚出屏幕外，事情就会变得更加复杂起来。

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9. Interactive products should stand by their convictions. If we tell the computer to discard a file, it shouldn’t ask, “Are you sure?”

一方面，软件应该坚定其信念，如果我们告诉计算机删除一个文件，它不应该问“你确定吗？”

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10. When the user is done and closes the document, the application is faced with a decision: whether to replace the original on disk with the changed copy from memory, or to discard the altered copy.

当用户完成对文档的修改并且关闭文档时，程序面临两种选择，即是用内存中的复制取代硬盘上的原始复制，还是放弃修改的复制？

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