英语词汇“recur”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINrecur

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin recurrere ‘to run back’, from currere ‘to run’

VERB TABLE

recur

Simple Form
Present	it	recurs
Present		recur
Past	it, they	recurred
Present perfect	they	have recurred
	it	has recurred
Past perfect	it, they	had recurred
Future	it, they	will recur
Future perfect	it, they	will have recurred

Continuous Form
Present	they	are recurring
	it	is recurring
Past	they	were recurring
	it	was recurring
Present perfect	they	have been recurring
	it	has been recurring
Past perfect	it, they	had been recurring
Future	it, they	will be recurring
Future perfect	it, they	will have been recurring

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Although the treatment for skin cancer is usually successful, the problem can recur later.
He has a small recurring role as Earl the barber.
Some people find that the same dream keeps recurring over a period of many years.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

And as the sound recurred she identified it and fled, with a speed which astonished her, through the nearest door.
Ashby says even after all these years, he still suffers from constantly recurring respiratory problems and skin rashes.
Bob carried out immediate treatment and reassured the client that the infestation would not recur because the drainage system had been replaced.
Bromocriptine increases the level of dopamine in the brain, which controls rhythmic biological cycles that recur every 24 hours.
Here, expressed in ecclesiastical terms, was the distinction between North and South which recurs frequently in writings of the period.
In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans.
One of Tan's recurring motifs is self-expression or its absence.
The recurring theme here is that community makes learning possible.

Longman Language Activatorto happen again► happen again

· She apologized for the incident and promised it wouldn't happen again.· I think I've solved the problem with your computer, but let me know if it happens again.

► recur

formal to happen again, once or repeatedly: · Although the treatment for skin cancer is usually successful, the problem can recur later.· Some people find that the same dream keeps recurring over a period of many years.

► repetition/repeat

an event or action that is the same as something that happened before: repetition/repeat of: · Hopefully, the experience will help us to avoid a repetition of our mistakes.· A lot of the lesson was just a repetition of what we'd already done.· Will next Saturday's game be a repeat of Germany's triumph last season?

► repeat performance

something that happens in exactly the same way as it happened before, usually with all the same problems: · The journey to work had taken hours that morning, and I wasn't looking forward to a repeat performance on the way home.repeat performance of: · We must try to make this summer camp a success. We don't want a repeat performance of last year's disaster.

► repeat itself

use this to say that things happen again in just the same way: · Stricter controls of farming methods are needed, if we want to prevent the disaster from repeating itself.history repeats itself: · The Cambodian people were afraid that history would repeat itself.

WORD SETS► Maths

abacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► recurring theme

Love is a recurring theme in the book.

► recurring dream/nightmare

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a recurrent/recurring dream

(=that you have many times)· Having recurrent dreams is a very common experience.

► a recurring feature

(=one that happens again and again)· Humour is a recurring feature of her novels.

► a recurrent/recurring theme

(=one that appears several times)· Returning to traditional values was a major theme of the president’s speech.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► frequently

· Here, expressed in ecclesiastical terms, was the distinction between North and South which recurs frequently in writings of the period.

NOUN► problem

· In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans.· Two problems recur in attempts to adopt any of the above solutions to the problem of natural monopoly.· The guarantee only agrees to re-treat the affected areas - it does not guarantee that the problem will not recur.· Threadworm is easily treated but unless the following precautions are taken the problem may recur.

► theme

· Two themes recur throughout our discussion of welfare economics in Part 3.· And not only do the themes recur, but they overlap.· Particular themes recur in any discussion of Andrew Lloyd Webber.· Four themes recurred throughout the research.· These themes constantly recur up to the First World War.· Some themes recur in several papers and this is indicative of their urgency.· Four themes recur throughout this volume.