花燈集英語字典

recant

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [rɪˈkænt]
  • 美式音标 [rɪˈkænt]
  • 国际音标 [ri'kænt]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vi. 宣佈放棄；公開認錯
  • vt. 放棄；撤廻

词根记忆

  • re(反) + cant(唱)→唱反調→放棄(信仰)
  • re(反) + cant(唱)→唱反調→放棄

同根派生

  • n性質的同根詞
    recantation：改變論調；取消前言。

英汉例句

  • White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
    白宮官員命令威廉斯公開宣佈放棄自己的觀點。
  • Though he was forced to change his religion,he would not recant.
    雖然強迫他改變宗教信仰，但他絕不改變。
  • However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
    不過,如果瑞德放其他的那套異耑邪說, 生活就會愜意得多.
  • White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
    白宮官員命令威廉斯公開宣佈放棄自己的觀點。
  • They could not make him recant.
    他們無法使他改變自己的意見.

词组短语

    短語

  • recant faith 公開放棄信仰
  • recant declare 撤銷聲明
  • recant t 放棄撤廻
  • recant detail 撤廻主張
  • rather die than recant 甯死不改變信仰

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.