| 词组 | retire - retiring |
| 释义 | retire - retiring ◊ 'retire' When someone retires, they leave their job and stop working, usually because they have reached the age when they can get a pension. Gladys retired at the age of sixty-eight. They had decided to retire from farming. ◊ 'retiring' The adjective retiring has two meanings. You use it in front of a noun such as 'MP' or 'chairman' to indicate that someone will soon give up their present job and be replaced by someone else. ...Jim Dacre, the retiring Labour MP. ...the retiring President of the Methodist Conference. You also use it to describe someone who is very quiet and avoids meeting other people. She was a shy, retiring girl. |
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