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reclaim v.收回；回收；纠正；开垦 (1) 在他停止支付租购分期付款后，该金融公司试图收回他的汽车。(2) 你或许有权要求退回去年你交付的部分税金。(3) 他们的日常工作是用旧轮胎再生橡胶。(4) 劝他改过是我义不容辞的义务。(5) 她的任务是感化过去的罪犯。(6) 这块土地是填海开垦出来的。 To claim is to declare or take ownership of something. To reclaim is to retake something lost. An injured quarterback must reclaim the starting position from his replacement. Two countries fighting over territory may lose and reclaim an area of land. A bank can reclaim a house if you don't make mortgage payments. Reclaim comes from the Old French reclamer, "to call back," which is rooted in the Latin word reclamare, "cry out against, or appeal."

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英 [rɪ'kleɪm] 美 [rɪ'kleɪm] (1) After he stopped paying the hire purchase installment, the finance company tried to reclaim his car.(2) You may be entitled to reclaim some of the tax you paid last year.(3) Their daily work is to reclaim rubber from old tyres.(4) It is incumbent on me to reclaim him.(5) Her mission was to reclaim former criminals.(6) This land was reclaimed from the sea. To reclaim something is to get it back. If a divorced couple remarries, they reclaim their marriage. 1[VERB 动词]要求归还（或恢复）；收回 If you reclaim something that you have lost or that has been taken away from you, you succeed in getting it back.   [V n]In 1986, they got the right to reclaim South African citizenship...1986年，他们取得了恢复南非公民身份的权利。'I've come to reclaim my property,' she announced to the desk clerk.“我来要求归还我的房产，”她向接待人员宣布。2[VERB 动词]收回；拿回；申请退（税） If you reclaim an amount of money, for example tax that you have paid, you claim it back.   [V n]There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to reclaim income tax.估计现在有800万人有资格申请所得税退税。3[VERB 动词]开垦（荒地）；开拓（耕地或建筑用地） When people reclaim land, they make it suitable for a purpose such as farming or building, for example by draining it or by building a barrier against the sea.   [V n]  [V-ed]The Netherlands has been reclaiming farmland from water.荷兰人一直在围海造地。...a scheme to build a residential development on 1,100 acres of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay.在东京湾通过围海造地开拓的1,100英亩土地上建造住宅区的计划4[VERB 动词]使（农田、建筑用地）重新变成（沙漠、森林或海洋） If a piece of land that was used for farming or building is reclaimed by a desert, forest, or the sea, it turns back into desert, forest, or sea.   [be V-ed by n]  [usu passive]The diamond towns are gradually being reclaimed by the desert...这些钻石城镇正逐渐重归沙漠。This method of spraying would allow the land to be reclaimed by the rain forests.这种喷洒法可以使土地重新变成雨林。5[VERB 动词]挽救；感化 If you reclaim a person who has been involved in bad or criminal behaviour, you cause them to stop acting in that way.   [V n]He set out to fight the drug infestation of Omaha by reclaiming a youth from the local gangs.他从挽救当地帮派的一个年轻人入手着力消除奥马哈的毒品泛滥问题。

英语单词	reclaim
英美音标	英 [rɪ'kleɪm] 美 [rɪ'kleɪm]
中文释义	v.收回；回收；纠正；开垦
英语例句	(1) After he stopped paying the hire purchase installment, the finance company tried to reclaim his car. (2) You may be entitled to reclaim some of the tax you paid last year. (3) Their daily work is to reclaim rubber from old tyres. (4) It is incumbent on me to reclaim him. (5) Her mission was to reclaim former criminals. (6) This land was reclaimed from the sea.
中文例句	(1) 在他停止支付租购分期付款后，该金融公司试图收回他的汽车。 (2) 你或许有权要求退回去年你交付的部分税金。 (3) 他们的日常工作是用旧轮胎再生橡胶。 (4) 劝他改过是我义不容辞的义务。 (5) 她的任务是感化过去的罪犯。 (6) 这块土地是填海开垦出来的。
vocabulary简明	To reclaim something is to get it back. If a divorced couple remarries, they reclaim their marriage.
vocabulary扩展	To claim is to declare or take ownership of something. To reclaim is to retake something lost. An injured quarterback must reclaim the starting position from his replacement. Two countries fighting over territory may lose and reclaim an area of land. A bank can reclaim a house if you don't make mortgage payments. Reclaim comes from the Old French reclamer, "to call back," which is rooted in the Latin word reclamare, "cry out against, or appeal."
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]要求归还（或恢复）；收回 If you reclaim something that you have lost or that has been taken away from you, you succeed in getting it back. [V n] In 1986, they got the right to reclaim South African citizenship... 1986年，他们取得了恢复南非公民身份的权利。 'I've come to reclaim my property,' she announced to the desk clerk. “我来要求归还我的房产，”她向接待人员宣布。 2 [VERB 动词]收回；拿回；申请退（税） If you reclaim an amount of money, for example tax that you have paid, you claim it back. [V n] There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to reclaim income tax. 估计现在有800万人有资格申请所得税退税。 3 [VERB 动词]开垦（荒地）；开拓（耕地或建筑用地） When people reclaim land, they make it suitable for a purpose such as farming or building, for example by draining it or by building a barrier against the sea. [V n] [V-ed] The Netherlands has been reclaiming farmland from water. 荷兰人一直在围海造地。 ...a scheme to build a residential development on 1,100 acres of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay. 在东京湾通过围海造地开拓的1,100英亩土地上建造住宅区的计划 4 [VERB 动词]使（农田、建筑用地）重新变成（沙漠、森林或海洋） If a piece of land that was used for farming or building is reclaimed by a desert, forest, or the sea, it turns back into desert, forest, or sea. [be V-ed by n] [usu passive] The diamond towns are gradually being reclaimed by the desert... 这些钻石城镇正逐渐重归沙漠。 This method of spraying would allow the land to be reclaimed by the rain forests. 这种喷洒法可以使土地重新变成雨林。 5 [VERB 动词]挽救；感化 If you reclaim a person who has been involved in bad or criminal behaviour, you cause them to stop acting in that way. [V n] He set out to fight the drug infestation of Omaha by reclaiming a youth from the local gangs. 他从挽救当地帮派的一个年轻人入手着力消除奥马哈的毒品泛滥问题。

Reclaim Verb 动词 N Land [V Sea Back