| 正面 | 13511.recoil 英 [rɪ'kɒɪl]美 ['rikɔɪl] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. curr- "run" => courier.vi. 畏缩;弹回;报应n. 畏缩;弹回;反作用 例句: 1. People used to recoil from the idea of getting into debt.过去人们不能接受欠债这种事情。 recoil 后退,后座力,畏缩来自古法语 reculer,向后移动,来自 re-,向后,往回,culer-,后面,来自拉丁语 culus,底部,屁 recoilrecoil: [13] Recoil has no connection with coil. In fact, etymologically it means virtually ‘withdraw backside first’, for it was coined in French on the basis of cul ‘arse, backside’. This went back to Latin cūlus ‘arse’, which was probably related to Sanskrit kūla- ‘rearguard’.recoil (n.)c. 1300, "retreat," from Old French recul "recoil, backward movement, retreat," from reculer (see recoil (v.)). Meaning "back-kick of a firearm" is from 1570s.recoil (v.)early 13c. (transitive) "force back, drive back," from Old French reculer "to go back, give way, recede, retreat" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *reculare, from Latin re- "back" (see re-) + culus "backside, bottom, fundament." Meaning "shrink back, retreat" is first recorded c. 1300; and that of "spring back" (as a gun) in 1520s. Related: Recoiled; recoiling." |
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