Recant
[ ri'kænt ]
出国 Abroad
vt. 撤回（声明），放弃（信仰或主张）;
💡 词根助记
re往后+cant唱，歌 → 撤消
📝 例句
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。
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。
The torture can not make the man recant .
拷问者不能使那个人放弃他的主张。
recant one's former beliefs, heresies
宣布放弃以前的信仰、 异教信仰.
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。
🌱 联想助记
【记】re-谐音“阿姨”,cant-can’t不能:阿姨不能放弃以前的信仰或声明
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
recant
v[I, Tn]
(fml 文)
(a) formally reject (a former opinion, belief, etc) as being wrong宣布放弃（以前的意见、 信仰等）
recant one's former beliefs, heresies 宣布放弃以前的信仰、 异教信仰.
(b) take back or withdraw (a statement, an opinion, etc) as being false 撤回, 撤销（声明、 意见等）（因不正确）.
🔁 扩展释义
*[ri'kænt]vt. 放弃vi. 放弃信仰, 撤回声明, 公开认错【法】 宣布放弃, 宣布撤回, 撤回声明
📖 同为「GRE」词汇
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Can you take us to...?
你能带我们去……
It is said that a new policy is being put into practice in your foreign trade.
据说你们正在实施一种新的对外贸易政策。
as by falling into inaccessible caves, or into an ice crevasse, like the Siberian mammoths,
如掉进难以到达的洞穴，或掉进冰河裂缝里，或者像西伯利亚长毛象那样掉进冰窟中，