中文词源
recant 公开声明放弃，撤消
re-,向后，往回，-cant,唱，吟唱，词源同 chant,cantor.比喻用法。
英语词源
- recant (v.)
- 1530s, from Latin recantare "recall, revoke," from re- "back" (see re-) + cantare "to chant" (see chant (v.)). A word from the Reformation. Loan-translation of Greek palinoidein "recant," from palin "back" + oeidein "to sing." Related: Recanted; recanting.
权威例句
- 1. White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
- 白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。
- 2. Though he was forced to change his religion,he would not recant.
- 虽然强迫他改变宗教信仰，但他绝不改变。
- 3. However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
- 不过,如果瑞德放其他的那套异端邪说, 生活就会惬意得多.
- 4. Editorials would demand that he either recant or retire from public life.
- 社论会提出要求,他要么宣布放弃信仰,要么从公共生活中隐退.
- 5. Smedley immediately went to court, forcing the army to recant publicly.
- 史沫特莱立即走上法庭, 迫使军方不得不公开撤回指控.
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