| 单词 | recede |
| 释义 | re·cede I. 1. archaic 2. < watched the August days recede — Francis Russell > < had drooped in his chair after dinner, and the accumulation of ninety years had receded abruptly into history — Victoria Sackville-West > 3. a. < the tide, having risen to its highest, was receding — Arnold Bennett > < a hairline receding almost visibly — Leslie Waller > < far too self-willed to recede from a position — Thomas Hardy > b. (1) < south of the town the river not only spreads out, but the hills recede — Sherwood Anderson > (2) < a receding forehead > 4. a. < once he had given his word, he could not recede > < receded from the bargain he had made > b. < a height of devotion to human liberties from which she has never receded — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > < define a position from which he never receded — Stanislaus Joyce > c. 5. a. < some feared that employment might recede to as few as 14,000 employees — New York Times > < colleges will recede in their public importance — R.W.Emerson > b. < demand in general eased and prices receded for practically all types of skins — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > 6. of a color < light colors recede > — contrasted with advance Synonyms: < the flood waters receded > < the frontier soon receded before the ax and plow — American Guide Series: Texas > < west coast lay opinion receded somewhat from its previous intransigent attitude — Americana Annual > retreat often applies to a drawing back or withdrawing induced by uncertainty, danger, fear, or superior opposing force or other agency exciting pressure < the outnumbered troops retreated before the enemy > < have been forced to retreat, for the earliest tabulations produced patterns too complex to be handled or understood — W.O.Aydelotte > < educational theory and practice have retreated into cultural parochialism — Douglas Bush > retrograde applies to movement backward in contrast to expected forward movement, to reversion or going backward rather than progressing < where one man advances, hundreds retrograde — T.L.Peacock > < he had progressed, and he could never, by any possibility, afford to retrograde — P.B.Kyne > retract indicates a drawing backward or inward from an outer, exposed, prominent, or more apparent position < a cat retracting its claws > < retracted the platoons on the left flank > back may refer to any backward or reversed motion or, especially with down, to a receding or retreating < back a car > < water backing up in the pipes > < back down and accept defeat > II. |
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