| 英语单词 | retreat |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [rɪ'triːt] 美 [rɪ'triːt] |
| 中文释义 | n.撤退;改变;隐居处 v.撤退;改变;退避;缩回象棋的棋子 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The troop made good their retreat from the occupied city. (2) He immediately sounded a retreat. (3) The minister made an undignified retreat from his earlier position. (4) The Senator made an embarrassing retreat from his earlier position. (5) Mike used to go to his comfortable retreat by the lake alone. (6) After several reverses the enemy was forced to retreat. (7) The soldiers had to retreat when they were beaten in battle. (8) You can't retreat from the responsibility in this affair. (9) He retreats from the public eye. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 部队从沦陷的城市安全撤出。 (2) 他立刻下令撤退。 (3) 那部长很不光彩地背离了他原先的立场。 (4) 这位参议员很尴尬地改变了他早先的立场。 (5) 麦克常常独自去位于湖边的舒适的隐居处。 (6) 几经失败之后,敌军被迫后撤。 (7) 士兵们在战斗中受挫,不得不撤退。 (8) 你不能回避在这一事件中的责任。 (9) 他避开公众的眼睛。 |
| vocabulary简明 | The noun retreat means a place you can go to be alone, to get away from it all. A spot under a shady tree might be your favorite retreat from the sun, or your bedroom in the basement may serve as a retreat from your siblings. |
| vocabulary扩展 | In the military sense, the noun retreat means the withdrawal of troops. The British retreat after the Battles of Lexington and Concord gave the American colonists an early taste of victory during the American Revolution. As a verb, retreat means to back out of something — like a lawyer who is forced to retreat from his argument when the opposing evidence is too convincing. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]退避;后退;离开 If you retreat, you move away from something or someone. [V prep] [V-ing] [Also V]
2 [VERB 动词](军队)撤退,退却 When an army retreats, it moves away from enemy forces in order to avoid fighting them. [V] [V-ing] [usu N
3 [VERB 动词]放弃,远离(计划、生活方式等);从…中隐退 If you retreat from something such as a plan or a way of life, you give it up, usually in order to do something safer or less extreme. [V
4 [N-COUNT 可数名词]隐居地;静养所 A retreat is a quiet, isolated place that you go to in order to rest or to do things in private. [oft supp N]
5 [PHRASE 短语]匆匆离开;仓皇撤退 If you beat a retreat, you leave a place quickly in order to avoid an embarrassing or dangerous situation. [V inflects]
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