recant
英 [rɪˈkænt]
美 [rɪˈkænt]
v. 公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)
过去式:recanted 过去分词:recanted 现在分词:recanting 第三人称单数:recants
BNC.35980 / COCA.19446
牛津词典
verb
- 公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)
to say, often publicly, that you no longer have the same belief or opinion that you had before
柯林斯词典
- VERB 公开放弃(信仰或意见)
If yourecant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.- White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。 - ...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人
- White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
英英释义
verb
- formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
- He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
- She abjured her beliefs
双语例句
- He was offered the opportunity to recant, but in good conscience he could not.
他被提供机会去放弃信仰,但良心让他做不到。 - White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。 - AIM: To summarize and analyze the clinical curative effect and usage method of chitosan biological fluid dressing ( CBFD) in recant years.
目的:总结与分析近年来壳聚糖生物流体敷料膜在临床领域中的疗效及使用方法。 - Smedley immediately went to court, forcing the army to recant publicly.
史沫特莱立即走上法庭,迫使军方不得不公开撤回指控。 - The recant development trend of production and application& thermo plastic elastomer ( TPE) in taran are introduced.
介绍了日本最近热塑性弹性体的生产,应用的开发动向。 - Editorials would demand that he either recant or retire from public life.
社论会提出要求,他要么宣布放弃信仰,要么从公共生活中隐退。 - The torture can not make the man recant.
拷问者不能使那个人放弃他的主张。 - Released and paraded around the capital, she refused to recant. Instead, she repeated her accusations.
她非但不放弃信仰,相反,她不屈从于对她的指控。 - Recant Developments of TiO_2 Series Humidity-Sensing Materials at Home and Abroad
TiO2系湿敏材料的国内外研究进展 - However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
不过,如果瑞德放弃他的那套异端邪说,生活就会惬意得多。