Revert
[rɪ'vɜːt] or [rɪ'vɝt]
解释:
(verb.) go back to a previous state; 'We reverted to the old rules'.
(verb.) undergo reversion, as in a mutation.
阿纳托尔校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
(v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
(v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
(v. i.) To return; to come back.
(v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
(v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
(v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
(n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
伯特兰校对
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Return, recur, come back, turn back.
录入:莉娜
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Return, refer, accrue, reaccrue, recur
ANT:Depart, escheat, ignore, drop, dismiss, discard
伊莱录入
解释:
v.t. to turn or drive back: to reverse.—v.i. to return: to fall back: to refer back: to return to the original owner or his heirs.—adjs. Rēver′tant (her.) flexed bent twice at a sharp angle; Rēver′ted reversed; Rēver′tible that may revert or be reverted; Rēver′tive tending to revert: changing: turning to the contrary.—adv. Rēver′tively by way of reversion.
编辑:马丁
例句:
- They are now distributed over nearly all the civilized parts of the world, but in large ponds they readily revert to the color of the original stock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- By the way, to revert to the letters, how are you going to get them posted? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Besides, I wish at once to tell you my wishes and expectations, and then never again to revert to so painful a subject. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- We are told of similar mental peculiarities running in families, and again of a tendency, as in the animals, to revert to a common or original stock. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And to this vernacular use Plato himself in the Laws seems to revert, though not always. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- But, to revert to your brother's dying, with the hot muffins in his mouth, for Lady Abdy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He knows that this latter institution is not more than four or five thousand years old: may not the end revert to the beginning? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- As evening came on, he reverted to the past. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- But, gradually his arm reverted home to him, and his glass was lowered and lowered until he rested it upside down upon the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Had Rachel reverted to this unlucky accident, at the critical moment when my place in her estimation was again, and far more seriously, assailed? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Edmund reverted to the harp, and was again very happy in the prospect of hearing her play. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- His mind had reverted to Ursula. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- They became panicky and reverted to an ancient superstition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- You know, John dear,' she said, cheerily reverting to their former conversation, 'that I hope I may safely be trusted in great things. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is a nervous subject to me, yet I cannot help reverting to it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Yes, yes, says the good old gentleman, reverting to his lesson of wisdom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood-stained magnificence, and moral squalor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Reverting for a moment to his former refuge, he observed a cautionary movement of her eyes towards the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Wishermaydie if I don't, sir, says Jo, reverting to his favourite declaration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Carton terminated the conversation here, by rising to help him on with his outer coat; But you, said Mr. Lorry, reverting to the theme, you are young. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- To the Spartan type the ideal State reverts in the first decline; and the character of the individual timocrat is borrowed from the Spartan citizen. 柏拉图. 理想国.
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