| 单词 | recover |
| 释义 | re·cov·er I. transitive verb 1. < sat down to recover his breath > < died without recovering consciousness > < answered as soon as he could recover his voice > < recover the pioneering spirit of their ancestors > 2. archaic 3. a. < stumbled and recovered himself > b. archaic < that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil — 2 Tim 2:26 (Authorized Version) > 4. a. < recover increased costs through higher prices > < hoped to recover his gambling losses with a big coup > b. < recover damages and costs in a libel suit > < recover title to a disputed property > < recover judgment against a defendant > 5. archaic 6. archaic < from death to life thou might'st him yet recover — Michael Drayton > < she hath recovered the king and undone me — Shakespeare > 7. < recover a lost scent > < recover the trail of a fugitive > 8. a. < recover gold from ore with cyanide > b. < recover land from the sea > c. < recover the lost secrets of ancient glassblowers > < recover the key of a cryptographic message > < recover petroleum from deep deposits > intransitive verb 1. a. < recovering from a bout of pneumonia > < patients on the southern side of a hospital recover faster than those on the northern side — Herbert Spencer > b. < when she had recovered from the first shock of the news > < the cotton industry was recovering after a slump during the war > 2. < recover after a lunge in fencing > < recover for the next rowing stroke > 3. 4. obsolete Synonyms: < recover a lost wallet > < recover one's sanity > < recover one's balance > < recover one's position in a firm > regain, often interchangeable with recover, implies more strongly a winning back < regain one's health > < regain one's liberty after a long imprisonment > < regain one's rights as a citizen > < regain popularity > retrieve implies a recovering or regaining after some effort < retrieve a lost fortune > < retrieve one's position lost through ill fortune > although the verb can have as its object such a word as loss, error, failure, or disaster, with which it then implies a reparation or a setting right < retrieve an error in addition > < retrieve a bad financial disaster by careful investment > recoup, a legal term implying a fair deduction as of part of a claim of a successful plaintiff in a law suit, in common use implies recovery or retrieval, usually in equivalent rather than identical form, of something lost < recoup gambling losses by more careful play > < recoup by some good hard work the money lost in bad investments > recruit in this context can imply a regaining, by fresh additions or a replenishment of the supply, of what has been lost < recruit a new battalion for the foot army > < the present difficulty of recruiting staff in the accountancy profession — Accountancy > < I fed and watered my horse and recruited my own energies with roast beef — W.H.Hudson †1922 > In extension it has come to apply to any acquiring as of members or a supply < a fair-sized audience can be recruited — Sidney Kaufman > < hundreds of thousands of Americans who had never worked before … were recruited for war production — Dorothy Jones > < recruit a staff for a new restaurant > II. |
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