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Draw French Past Participle Meaning Back Retreat Latin

正面 4833.retreat
英 [rɪ'triːt]美 [rɪ'trit]

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释义:
n. 撤退;休息寓所;撤退vi. 撤退;退避;向后倾vt. 退(棋);使后退
例句:
1. In June 1942, the British 8th Army was in full retreat.1942年6月,英国第八军全面撤退.

1、retrahere "draw back" => retrere "draw back" => retret "draw back" => retreat.2、re- "back" + treat-.
retreat 撤退,撤退,退避re-,向后,往回,treat,拉,处理,词源同 tract.即回拉,引申词义撤退,退离。
retreatretreat: [14] Retreat and retract [15] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to Latin retrahere ‘draw back’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back’ and trahere ‘draw, pull’ (source of English tractor). This passed into Old French as retraire, and its past participle retrait came to be used as a noun meaning ‘withdrawal’ – whence English retreat. Meanwhile the past participle of retrahere, retractus, had been used as the basis of a new Latin verb, retractāre, which passed into English via Old French retracter as retract.=> contract, distract, retract, tractorretreat (n.)c. 1300, "a step backward;" late 14c., "act of retiring or withdrawing; military signal for retiring from action or exercise," from Old French retret, noun use of past participle of retrere "draw back," from Latin retrahere "draw back, withdraw, call back," from re- "back" (see re-) + trahere "to draw" (see tract (n.1)). Meaning "place of seclusion" is from early 15c.; sense of "establishment for mentally ill persons" is from 1797. Meaning "period of retirement for religious self-examination" is from 1756.retreat (v.)early 15c., "to draw in, draw back, leave the extremities," from retreat (n.) and in part from Old French retret, past participle of retrere. Meaning "to fall back from battle" is mid-15c. Related: Retreated; retreating."

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