recant
英 [rɪˈkænt]
美 [rɪˈkænt]
v. 公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)
过去式:recanted 过去分词:recanted 现在分词:recanting 第三人称单数:recants
BNC.35980 / COCA.19446
牛津词典
verb
- 公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)
to say, often publicly, that you no longer have the same belief or opinion that you had before
柯林斯词典
- VERB 公开放弃(信仰或意见)
If yourecant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.- White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。 - ...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人
- White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
英英释义
verb
- formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
- He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
- She abjured her beliefs
双语例句
- The torture can not make the man recant.
拷问者不能使那个人放弃他的主张。 - No Christian has ever been known to recant on his deathbed.
从未听过有任何一位基督徒在临终时放弃信仰的。 - Released and paraded around the capital, she refused to recant. Instead, she repeated her accusations.
她非但不放弃信仰,相反,她不屈从于对她的指控。 - White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。 - If you recant your confession.
这对你和你的儿子都有好处。 - Smedley immediately went to court, forcing the army to recant publicly.
史沫特莱立即走上法庭,迫使军方不得不公开撤回指控。 - 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,但他决不改变过来。 - However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
不过,如果瑞德放弃他的那套异端邪说,生活就会惬意得多。 - Recant Developments of TiO_2 Series Humidity-Sensing Materials at Home and Abroad
TiO2系湿敏材料的国内外研究进展 - Galileo was accused of heresy in1633 and forced to publicly recant his theories.
伽利略的学说1633年被指控为异端邪说,他被迫公开表示放弃自己的观点。