revert
英 [rɪˈvɜːt]
美 [rɪˈvɝːt]
- vi. 回复;重提;返祖遗传;归还
- vt. 使回复原状
- n. 恢复原状者
- n. (Revert)人名;(西)雷韦特;(法)勒韦尔
1、re- "back" + vert-.
2、字面含义:turn back, return.
3、该词的构造及其含义可以说与return是异曲同工。
revert 回转,回复,恢复re-,向后,往回,-vert,转,词源同 pervert,perverse.
- revert (v.)
- c. 1300, "to come to oneself again," from Old French revertir "return, change back," from Vulgar Latin *revertire, variant of Latin revertere "turn back, turn about; come back, return," from re- "back" (see re-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Of position or property from mid-15c.; application to customs and ideas is from 1610s.
- 1. Garden plants sometimes revert to type.
- 园艺植物有时会恢复其原来的野生形态.
- 2. When it returns to shore, the life-jacket will deflate and revert to a harness.
- 返回岸上后,救生衣就会瘪掉,恢复成背带状。
- 3. They will revert to tilling the earth in an old-fashioned way.
- 他们将回归到用老方法耕地。
- 4. Must he revert to Ellen always?
- 难道他非提到母亲不行?
- 5. Peasants were allowed to adhere or revert to individual farming in Poland.
- 波兰允许农民坚持或倒退到个体农业.