Revoke
[rɪ'vəʊk] or [rɪ'vok]
解释:
(noun.) the mistake of not following suit when able to do so.
(verb.) cancel officially; 'He revoked the ban on smoking'; 'lift an embargo'; 'vacate a death sentence'.
(verb.) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so.
卡里校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To call or bring back; to recall.
(v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.
(v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
(v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.
(v. t.) To call back to mind; to recollect.
(v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
(n.) The act of revoking.
整理:莱缪尔
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Recall (what has been said), recant, retract, REPEAL, reverse, annul, cancel, rescind, countermand, abrogate, abolish, discard, quash, set aside, do away, make void.
校对:索尼亚
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Recal, withdraw, cancel, annul, rescind, repeal, declare_void
ANT:Sanction, enact, perpetuate, enforce, reiterate, renew
克劳德特录入
解释:
v.t. to annul by recalling: to repeal: to reverse: to neglect to follow suit (at cards).—n. revocation recall: act of revoking at cards.—adj. Rev′ocable that may be revoked.—ns. Rev′ocableness Revocabil′ity.—adv. Rev′ocably.—n. Revocā′tion,a recalling: repeal: reversal.—adj. Rev′ocātory.—n. Revoke′ment (Shak.) revocation.—Revocation of the edict of Nantes the taking away by Louis IV. in 1685 of the Huguenot privileges granted by Henry IV. in 1598."
编辑:史蒂夫
例句:
- Well, at any rate, I revoke what I said this morning--that you Milton people did not reverence the past. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Should he apply directly to Mr. Brooke, and demand of that troublesome gentleman to revoke his proposal? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- In making it, he revoked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- But on the morning of that day Lydgate had to learn that Rosamond had revoked his order to Borthrop Trumbull. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Lord said, Move on, thou, likewise, and the command has never been revoked from that day to this. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The two men revoked one another. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It was as if he were a beam of essential enmity, a beam of light that did not only destroy her, but denied her altogether, revoked her whole world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
整理:梅纳德