recant

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音标发音

英式音标 [rɪˈkænt]
美式音标 [rɪˈkænt]
国际音标 [ri'kænt]
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基本解释

vi. 宣布放弃；公开认错
vt. 放弃；撤回

词根记忆

re(反) + cant(唱)→唱反调→放弃(信仰)
re(反) + cant(唱)→唱反调→放弃

同根派生

n性质的同根词
recantation：改变论调；取消前言。

recant相关词

英汉例句

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。
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。
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.
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。
They could not make him recant.
他们无法使他改变自己的意见.

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词组短语

短语

recant faith 公开放弃信仰
recant declare 撤销声明
recant t 放弃撤回
recant detail 撤回主张
rather die than recant 宁死不改变信仰

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

to announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them

柯林斯英英字典

If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.