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recede

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v.后退

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recede为短语/超纲词汇

词形变化:

动词过去式:receded 过去分词:receded 现在分词:receding 第三人称单数:recedes

词根

cede=to go(去),to yield(让步) 变化型 ceed,cess

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regress  retreat  withdraw  proceed    

recede


/rɪ'si:d; rɪ`sid/
v
1 [I, Ipr] ~ (from sth) (seem to) move back from a previous position or away from an observer (似)自原处後退或避开别人的注视
*As the tide receded (from the shore) we were able to look for shells. 潮水(自岸边)退去, 我们就能寻找贝壳了.
* We reached the open sea and the coast receded into the distance. 我们驶抵公海, 海岸似乎退到了远方.
* (fig 比喻) The prospect of bankruptcy has now receded, ie is less likely. 破产的危险现已减少了.
2 [I] slope backwards 向後倾斜
*a receding chin 向後缩的下巴
* Tom has a receding hairline, ie His hair has stopped growing at the forehead and temples. 汤姆的前发际已渐渐後移(前额和太阳穴不再长头发).

recede


v [I]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin;Origin: recedere, from cedere 'to go']
if something you can see or hear recedes, it gets further and further away until it disappears
recede into
 footsteps receding into the distance
if a memory, feeling, or possibility recedes, it gradually goes away
 The pain in his head gradually receded.
if water recedes, it moves back from an area that it was covering
 The flood waters finally began to recede in November.
if your hair recedes, you gradually lose the hair at the front of your head
 He was in his mid-forties, with a receding hairline .
receding chin
a chin that slopes backwards
1. Until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
    逐渐摆脱个人狭小的圈子,直到自我的围墙一点一点地倒塌下来,自己的生活慢慢地和整个宇宙的生活融合在一起。

2. Houses and trees seem to recede as we ride past in a train.
    当我们乘火车经过时,房屋和树木似乎向后退。

3. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
    然后河面渐渐地变宽,两岸后撤,河水流得平缓起来,最后连绵不断地汇入大海,毫无痛苦地失去了自我的存在。

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