recoil1
KK: [rɪˈkɒɪl]
DJ: [riˈkɒil]
vi.
- 彈回，跳回；產生反作用
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The gun
recoiled after being fired.
槍放後向後反衝。
- 退卻；畏縮，退縮[（+from）]
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The girl
recoiled at seeing a dead mouse.
那女孩看到一隻死老鼠直往後縮。
- 報應，回報[（+on/upon）]
片語
recoil on
- 使得到報應
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The damage
recoils on his own head.
他害人反害己。
recoil2
KK: [ˈriˌkɒɪl]
DJ: [ˈriːkɒil]
n.[U][S1]
- 彈回，跳回
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the
recoil of a spring
彈簧的彈回
- 【物】反衝
- 後退，畏縮[（+from）]
v.
- suddenly spring back or flinch in fear, horror, or disgust.
▸feel such emotions at the thought of something.
- (of a gun) move abruptly backwards as a reaction on firing.
▸spring back through force of impact or elasticity.
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(recoil on/upon)
(of an action) have an adverse consequence for (the originator).
n.
the action of recoiling.
Derivative
History
Recoil came into English from Old French reculer ‘move back’, and first meant ‘drive or force back’ or ‘retreat’. The -coil part comes from Latin culus, which means ‘buttocks, bottom’: this gave rise to the French word cul, the source of cul-de-sac (literally ‘bottom of a sack’) and culottes.
