断つ， 絶つ， たつ
1. to sever, to cut off
2. to suppress, to eradicate, to exterminate
3. to abstain (from), to give up
切断，截断；戒除，放弃；镇压，根除，消灭
新聞に飛行機が消息を絶ったと書いてあった。
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I read in the newspaper that contact with the plane had been lost.
The newspaper said that contact with the plane had been lost.
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彼女は自らの命を絶った。
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She took her own life.
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彼女はきっぱり断った。
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She refused outright.
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彼らは食料の供給を断たれた。
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They were cut off from food supplies.
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彼は１８年間働いた会社と関係を絶った。
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He dissociated himself from the firm he had worked for for eighteen years.
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人々は供給が断たれるまでは電気をあって当然のものと思っている。
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People take electricity for granted until its supply is cut off.
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真の科学は我々に疑うことを、そして無知を断つことを教える。
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True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
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私たちは彼らとは関係を断っている。
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We have broken off relations with them.
We've broken off relations with them.
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いったい彼女は彼らとの関係を断ったのだろうか。
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Can she have broken off with them?
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あの国は近隣諸国との外交関係を絶った。
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That country broke off diplomatic relations with the neighboring countries.
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