| 释义 |
reˈprocess, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To subject (something) to a special process again. So reˈprocessed ppl. a.; reˈprocessing vbl. n.
1939Sun (Baltimore) 21 Feb. 14/4 ‘Reprocessed’..should be applied to wool made into a fibrous state for reuse. 1944Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 16 Jan. 9/1 A ‘reprocessing’ routine has been made an important part of the discharge procedure. 1948News Chron. 15 Jan. 2/2 Production can be increased by reprocessing what we used to throw away. 1956Nature 3 Mar. 400/1 The United Kingdom is likely..to re-process the burnt elements from reactors. 1962E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organization xix. 190 When an item is sold, the punched ticket is returned to the warehouse, where it is re-processed for sales records to be made. 1977New Yorker 9 May 142/2 The Japanese are..troubled..by our objections to the use of reprocessed nuclear fuel. 1979Bull. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. May 44 Participants discussed the time necessary for a nation to convert a reprocessing plant to weapons production and how that time might be lengthened without giving up nuclear energy. |