Retract
[rɪ'trækt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ).
校對:莫利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
(v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
(v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
(v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
(v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
(n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
整理:彼得
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Withdraw, draw back.[2]. Recall, revoke, recant, abjure, disavow, cancel, take back.
v. n. Take back what was said, eat one's words.
錄入:伦纳德
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Withdraw, recal, revoke, unsay, disavow, recant, abjure, renounce
ANT:Reiterate, repeat
整理:苏西
解釋/意思:
v.t. to retrace or draw back: to recall: to recant.—v.i. to take back what has been said or granted.—adjs. Retrac′table Retrac′tible capable of being retracted or recalled.—n. Retractā′tion.—p.adj. Retrac′ted (her.) couped by a line diagonal to the main direction: (bot.) bent back.—adj. Retrac′tile that may be drawn back as claws.—n. Retrac′tion act of retracting or drawing back: recantation.—adj. Retrac′tive able or ready to retract.—adv. Retrac′tively.—n. Retrac′tor one who or that which retracts or draws back: in breech-loading firearms a device for withdrawing a cartridge-shell from the barrel: (surg.) an instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during operation: a bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw: (zool.) a muscle serving to draw in any part.
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例句/造句/用法:
- A dark interval of most bitter thought followed this burst; but I did not regret the step taken, nor wish to retract it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Nay, said the Friar, if thou dost retract vows made in favour of holy Church, thou must do penance. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Sometimes he wished that he had never known Eustacia, immediately to retract the wish as brutal. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I hope you do not retract what you then said. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Yet let me a little retract from this sentence I have passed on myself. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Having said that, you will neither hesitate nor retract? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Neither in the Laws, when the daylight of common sense breaks in upon him, does he retract his error. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I hope it may not,' said the Secretary in a lower voice, 'be the result of the false accusation which has been retracted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- However, the permission was given, and was never retracted; for when the month was out, Peggotty and I were ready to depart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- This opinion I can scarce forbear retracting, and condemning from my present feeling and experience. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
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