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Return French Retorner Back Turn Meaning English 14c

正面 473.return
英 [rɪ'tɜːn]美 [rɪ'tɝn]

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释义:
vt. 返回;报答vi. 返回;报答n. 返回;归还;回球adj. 报答的;回程的;返回的
例句:
1. I will return, find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.我会回去,找到你,爱你,娶你,活的光明正大。《赎罪》

police,n,警察,音“跑累死”。警察的最终结局是“跑累死”,因为小偷可以选择休息,而警察不能,警察永远跟在多个小偷的后面。
return 归来,返回re-,向后,往回,turn,转。引申词义归来,返回。
returnreturn: [14] The origins of return are in Vulgar Latin. There, Latin tornāre (source of English turn), which originally meant ‘turn on a lathe’, was combined with the prefix re- ‘back’ to produce *retornāre ‘turn back’, which passed via Old French retorner into English as return.=> turnreturn (v.)early 14c., "to come back, come or go back to a former position" (intransitive), from Old French retorner "turn back, turn round, return" (Modern French retourner), from re- "back" (see re-) + torner "to turn" (see turn (v.)). Transitive sense of "report officially" is early 15c.; "to send back" is mid-15c.; that of "to turn back" is from c. 1500. Meaning "to give in repayment" is 1590s; that of "give back, restore" c. 1600. Related: Returned; returning.return (n.)late 14c., "act of coming back," also "official report of election results," from Anglo-French retorn, Old French retorne, verbal noun from retorner (see return (v.)). In ball games from 1833; specifically in tennis from 1886. Meaning "a yield, a profit" is recorded from 1620s. Meaning "a thing sent back" is from 1875. Many happy returns of the day was used by Addison (1716). Mailing return address attested from 1884."

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