一般人聽到 「放棄」兩字可能馬上就會有負面的聯想，但在現實的工作環境中，免不了會有一些事物是不值得投資時間在上面的。在這種狀況之下，與其埋頭苦幹，不如將時間做更佳的利用。要回答此題時不一定要說「我從沒想過放棄任務」，這樣聽起來有點刻意。直接回答曾有想放棄的經驗並無妨，不過當然要說明是經過一番努力和深思熟慮之後的決定，而不是連試都沒試，在一開頭就想放棄。

有力簡答

Once, our team was working on a very large-scale project and it was so time-consuming that all members almost gave up. With help from our supervisor, we got the project done eventually.有一次我們團隊負責執行一個非常大型的案子，因為太過耗時了，所有團員都幾乎想放棄。後來透過主管的協助，我們終於把案子完成了。

深入詳答

Last year, I worked on a project where we had to make a 3-5 minute film to introduce the software company I worked for. My team came up with the idea of exploring software trends through the decades since we thought it would be exciting to see the innovations in software applications over the years. However, after actually working on it, we found that editing the film would be much more time-consuming than we had anticipated, especially when we tried to squeeze too much content into the film. So we almost wanted to give up on it. Eventually after our supervisor jumped in and mapped out a timeline, we could just concertrate on key elements and get the project done. The lesson I learned was to be realistic and focus on workable ideas only.去年，我做過一個案子，我們必須製作一個三到五分鐘的影片介紹我服務的軟體公司。我們團隊想出了要探討十年來軟體趨勢的點子，因為我們覺得回顧過去軟體應用的各項創新會很有趣。但是當我們真正執行時才發現影片剪輯比我們預期的還花時間，尤其是當我們想將太多的內容擠到影片內的時候。所以大家幾乎想放棄不做了。最後我們的主管親自參與並替我們規劃好時間，我們才得以專注在重點上並將案子完成。由此我學到的教訓是要務實，並專注在可行的構想上。

1. The lesson I learned was to be [adjective] and focus on [something] only.
   由此我學到的教訓是要〔形容詞〕，並專注在〔某事〕上。