recant

美音:[rɪ'kænt] 英音:[rɪ'kænt]

简单释义:


v.公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)

网络改变;取消;放弃信仰

变形:

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


完整释义:


v.

1.改变;声明放弃
2.改变,取消,护回(主张等)
3.取消主张;收回前言;撤回声明;公开认错


例句:

  1. Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or face excommunication.
    年,马丁·路德公开烧毁要求他撤回或面临逐出教会的教皇法令。

  2. They recalled how torture was routinely used to break prisoners, make them recant their religious or political beliefs, or denounce others
    他们回忆了那些常常用来摧残囚犯,迫使他们放弃他们的宗教及政治信仰,或谴责他人的酷刑

  3. 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。

  4. eg Editorials would demand that he either recant or retire from public life.
    社论会提出要求,他若不是宣布放弃信仰,就是从公共生活中隐退。

  5. To recant or retract something sworn.
    食言取消或撤回所发的誓

  6. A few, like Xu Wenli, were marginalized because of their former prison records and their continued refusal to recant or compromise.
    一些人,比如徐文立,有坐牢前科又坚持不服、拒绝妥协,结果被边缘化。

  7. Though he was tortured to make him change his religion, the prisoner would not recant.
    那囚犯虽受酷刑迫他改变他的宗教信仰,但他绝不改变。

  8. The Inquisition accused him of heresy, and at the age of 70 he was forced to recant his beliefs under threat of death by torture.
    宗教法庭控告他的异端学说,在70岁时,他在要被酷刑致死的恐吓之下被迫放弃了自己的观点。

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