recant

recant什么意思,recant翻译

基本解释

v.: 改变；取消主张；收回前言；撤回声明
网络: 一点一点地放弃了

英汉解释

• 取消主张;收回前言;撤回声明;公开认错

• 改变,取消,护回(主张等)

• 改变;声明放弃

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：recants

• 现在分词：recanting

• 过去式：recanted

同义词

v.take backrenouncerepudiatedisavowretract

反义词

v.avow

例句

• Seven of nine witnesses against Mr. Davis recanted after trial. Six said the police threatened them if they did not identify Mr. Davis.

  9名反对Davis的目击者中就有7名在审判后说如果他们辨认不出Davis警察就会威胁他们。

• For the sake of his life, Galileo recanted his views in 1633, admitting that the earth did not spin on its own axis.

  为了保住性命，1633年，伽利略被迫宣布放弃日心说，承认地球并不是绕着地轴旋转的。

• Under duress from the Inquisition in 1633, Galileo recanted his theory that the earth revolves around the sun.

  一六三三年，伽利略在宗教裁判所的威逼之下，宣布放弃自己的地动论。

• She later recanted the confession and has denied wrongdoing, he said.

  她后来否认自己的供词，并否认有任何过错，他说。

• The author of those words has since recanted, and experts are increasingly coming to view happiness as a talent, not an inborn trait.

  这些话其后否定本身的作家，专家们正日益将其视为一个天才的快乐，而不是生成的特质。

• Hawking could not reconcile the conflict, and a few years ago he recanted his position on information loss.

  霍金无能为力，几年后也放弃了自己对信息消失这一理念的坚持。

• She later recanted that confession and has denied wrongdoing.

  她之后撤回认罪自白并否认有任何行为不当。