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有条件投降
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Capitulate \Ca*pit"u*late\, v. t.
To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on
certain conditions. [R.]
Capitulate \Ca*pit"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Capitulated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Capitulating}.] [LL. capitulatus, p. p. of
capitulare to capitulate: cf. F. capituler. See {Capitular},
n.]
1. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement,
as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.]
There capitulates with the king . . . to take to
wife his daughter Mary. --Heylin.
There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement
to certain heads or capitula should not be called to
capitulate. --Trench.
2. To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under
several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
--Macaulay.
资料来源 : WordNet®
capitulate
v : surrender under agreed conditions