recanting

英 [rɪˈkæntɪŋ]

美 [rɪˈkæntɪŋ]

v.  公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)
recant的现在分词

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

双语例句

• At least one media report quoted an unnamed source with information to that effect, before later recanting.
  至少有一个媒体使用匿名消息人士说法报道这个信息，但媒体随后又撤回报道。
• Recently, Hawking, who has no qualms about recanting his own work if he decides he was wrong, may have transcended his famous proof that singularities exist.
  最近，哈肯没有考虑放弃他的工作，如果他认为他是错的，可能已经超越他的著名的关于非凡现象存在的证据。