| 词组 | give away |
| 释义 | give away 1. give away sth • give sth away to give something that you do not want or need to someone, without asking them to pay for it: ▪ "Do you still have your old coursebooks from university?" "No, I've given them all away." + to ▪ Before leaving America she gave away her furniture to her family and friends. 2. give away sth • give sth away if a company or store gives away a product, they give it to people without asking them for any payment in order to attract more customers: ▪ They're giving away free glasses with every bottle of wine. ▪ Cell-phone networks are giving phones away in order to get subscribers. giveaway n C something that a company or store gives to people without asking for payment: ▪ There are usually a lot of cheap giveaways on offer at Christmas. giveaway adj only before noun given free by a company in order to advertise its products: ▪ giveaway dairies giveaway prices prices that are very low: ▪ The shop was selling off all its old stock at giveaway prices. 3. give away sth • give sth away to give something as a prize in a competition: ▪ We have five baseball caps to give away in this week's show - all you have to do is answer one simple question. ▪ They're giving away 200 free tickets to see the band on tour. 4. give away sth • give sth away to let someone know about something that should be a secret, especially by mistake: ▪ I don't want to give away the ending. You'll have to see the movie for yourself. ▪ In her interview she was careful not to give anything away about her plans for the future. give the game away (=make someone realize something that other people wanted to keep a secret) ▪ The thing that gave the game away was when I found one of his socks under our bed. ■ SIMILAR TO: reveal giveaway n singular something that makes it easy for you to guess a fact that people are trying to keep secret: ▪ The lipstick on his collar was a bit of a giveaway. sth is a dead giveaway spoken (=used to emphasize that something makes it very easy to guess a fact that someone wanted to keep secret) ▪ I knew she'd been taking drugs - her eyes were a dead giveaway. 5. give sb away to accidentally show other people how you really feel, or what you are trying to do, when you are trying to hide this: ▪ Karen was trying to look cool and businesslike, but her face gave her away immediately. give yourself away ▪ Most shoplifters give themselves away by constantly looking round for cameras. 6. give sb away if you give someone away who is hiding from the police, soldiers etc, you tell the police or soldiers where that person is, or that this is the person they are looking for: ▪ Campbell managed to avoid arrest for several months, until finally someone in his family gave him away to the local police. ■ SIMILAR TO: betray 7. give away sth/give sth away to let your opponents have an advantage or allow them to win, by playing badly or making silly mistakes: ▪ Arsenal gave away two goals in the first five minutes of the game. ▪ Some people in the party have accused him of giving away the election. 8. give sb away/give away sb if a man gives away the woman who is getting married, he takes her to the front of the church to the man she is going to marry, and gives permission for her to marry: ▪ The bride was given away by her uncle, Andrew Johnson. |
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