单词 | recoil |
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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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