recant
美音:
[rı´kænt
]英音:
[rı´kænt
]v.放弃
难易程度:
recant为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
动词过去式:recanted 过去分词:recanted 现在分词:recanting 第三人称单数:recants 名词:recantation
词根
cant=to sing(唱歌) 变化型 chant,cent
近义词, 同义词
recant
/rɪ'kænt; rɪ`kænt/
v [I, Tn] (fml 文)
(a) formally reject (a former opinion, belief, etc) as being wrong宣布放弃(以前的意见、信仰等)
*recant one's former beliefs, heresies 宣布放弃以前的信仰、异教信仰.
(b) take back or withdraw (a statement, an opinion, etc) as being false 撤回, 撤销(声明、意见等)(因不正确).
recant
v [I and T]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin;Origin: recantare, from cantare 'to sing']
formal to say publicly that you no longer have a political or religious belief that you had before
>recantation [,riːkæn'teɪʃən/
1. Though he was tortured to make him change his religion, the prisoner would not recant. 那囚犯虽受酷刑迫他改变他的宗教信仰,但他绝不改变。
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