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Recoil Back V French Reculer Meaning Retreat Latin

单词 recoil
音标 [ri'kɔil]
解释 v.退却,退缩
红宝书 【英】 v. 退却,退缩(to shrink back physically or emotionally; wince; quail)
【记】 re(重新)+coil(卷, 盘绕)→卷回去→退缩
【例】 She recoiled at the sight of the snake.
字源 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.
不择手段背单词 v. (因害怕或厌恶而)退却, 退缩
【记】re反, coil(v 卷, 盘绕)一反卷回去一退缩
【反】advance(n /v 前进; 提前)
趣味全助记 【记】re 回,后 + coil 卷,盘绕, 向后卷,向后缩;re 回 + curl 卷曲,蜷缩;re 回 + 音:烤油(oil),烤油炸的东西往后退缩,因为油星四溅怕烫着;

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