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recent adj.近来的；新近的 (1) 近来的种种发现将会证实他的预言。(2) 近年来政府对报纸的控制已经变松了。(3) "这把茶壶貌似古董,却是一件新近制作的赝品。"(4) 部长就局势的最新发展作了另一番解释。 If you talk about something that happened in recent months or years, it means the last one to three months or years. Otherwise, recent means new or just happened. It’s particularly useful when you don’t know exactly when something happened, but you know it wasn’t long ago. Perhaps you have been a recent guest star on a show, and your recent movies have been very successful. You know it wasn’t long ago at all and you are still a star!

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英 ['riːsnt] 美 ['riːsnt] (1) Recent discoveries will bear his prediction out.(2) The government's control over the newspapers has loosened in recent years.(3) The teapot looked old but was a recent fake.(4) The minister has put a different gloss on recent developments. If something is recent, it happened in the immediate past or not long ago. You are a recent fan of yoga if you just started liking it in the past week or two. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]近来的；最近的；最新的 A recent event or period of time happened only a short while ago.   [usu ADJ n]In the most recent attack one man was shot dead and two others were wounded...在最近的一次袭击中，一名男子遇袭身亡，另外两人受伤。Sales have fallen by more than 75 percent in recent years.近几年来销售额下降了75%以上。

英语单词	recent
英美音标	英 ['riːsnt] 美 ['riːsnt]
中文释义	adj.近来的；新近的
英语例句	(1) Recent discoveries will bear his prediction out. (2) The government's control over the newspapers has loosened in recent years. (3) The teapot looked old but was a recent fake. (4) The minister has put a different gloss on recent developments.
中文例句	(1) 近来的种种发现将会证实他的预言。 (2) 近年来政府对报纸的控制已经变松了。 (3) "这把茶壶貌似古董,却是一件新近制作的赝品。" (4) 部长就局势的最新发展作了另一番解释。
vocabulary简明	If something is recent, it happened in the immediate past or not long ago. You are a recent fan of yoga if you just started liking it in the past week or two.
vocabulary扩展	If you talk about something that happened in recent months or years, it means the last one to three months or years. Otherwise, recent means new or just happened. It’s particularly useful when you don’t know exactly when something happened, but you know it wasn’t long ago. Perhaps you have been a recent guest star on a show, and your recent movies have been very successful. You know it wasn’t long ago at all and you are still a star!
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]近来的；最近的；最新的 A recent event or period of time happened only a short while ago. [usu ADJ n] In the most recent attack one man was shot dead and two others were wounded... 在最近的一次袭击中，一名男子遇袭身亡，另外两人受伤。 Sales have fallen by more than 75 percent in recent years. 近几年来销售额下降了75%以上。

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