the act of leaving a person, thing or place with no intention of returning 离弃；遗弃；抛弃 their childhood abandonment by their mother 他们的童年被母亲抛弃
the act of giving up an idea or stopping an activity with no intention of returning to it 放弃；中止 the government’s abandonment of its new economic policy 政府对新经济政策的放弃