recant

英 [rɪˈkænt]

美 [rɪˈkænt]

v.  公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)

过去式：recanted　过去分词：recanted　现在分词：recanting　第三人称单数：recants　

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BNC.35980 / COCA.19446

牛津词典

verb

• 公开宣布放弃（原先的信仰、观点等）
  to say, often publicly, that you no longer have the same belief or opinion that you had before

柯林斯词典

• VERB 公开放弃（信仰或意见）
  If yourecant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.
  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. ...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
     受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人

英英释义

verb

• formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
  1. He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
  2. She abjured her beliefs
  Synonym:abjureforswearretractresile

双语例句

• If you recant your confession.
  这对你和你的儿子都有好处。
• What if I had to get you to recant?
  如果我想让你放弃你的信仰，怎么办？
• Released and paraded around the capital, she refused to recant. Instead, she repeated her accusations.
  她非但不放弃信仰，相反，她不屈从于对她的指控。
• However, life would be pleasanter if Rhett would recant his heresies.
  不过，如果瑞德放弃他的那套异端邪说，生活就会惬意得多。
• In the past, the church ordered people charged with heresy to be burned to death if they did not recant.
  过去，教会命令，要是那些被控异端的人不放其其信仰的话就把他们烧死。
• When one examines the actual experiences of urban conservation in recant Japan one may realize that historical office buildings of the 1920's and the 1930's are in great danger of demolition due to proposed district redevelopment.
  对近期日本的城市保护工作的实际加以考察，就会发现由于大量再开发项目列入计划.近代历史性办公建筑濒临拆毁的绝境。
• The recant development trend of production and application& thermo plastic elastomer ( TPE) in taran are introduced.
  介绍了日本最近热塑性弹性体的生产，应用的开发动向。
• No Christian has ever been known to recant on his deathbed.
  从未听过有任何一位基督徒在临终时放弃信仰的。
• 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。
• Galileo was accused of heresy in1633 and forced to publicly recant his theories.
  伽利略的学说1633年被指控为异端邪说，他被迫公开表示放弃自己的观点。