recant

英 [rɪˈkænt]

美 [rɪˈkænt]

v. 公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)

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

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BNC.35980 / COCA.19446

牛津词典

verb

公开宣布放弃（原先的信仰、观点等）
to say, often publicly, that you no longer have the same belief or opinion that you had before

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

英英释义

verb

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
1. He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
2. She abjured her beliefs
Synonym:abjureforswearretractresile

双语例句

Alan Greenspan appeared then to partially recant when he told Congress in 2009 that he now doubted the models of rational behaviour on which he had long relied.
艾伦格林斯潘（AlanGreenspan）当时似乎改变了部分信仰。2009年，他告诉美国国会，他现在对长期以来一直信赖的理性行为模式产生了怀疑。
If you recant your confession.
这对你和你的儿子都有好处。
The torture can not make the man recant.
拷问者不能使那个人放弃他的主张。
In recant years, there is an increasing demand for design of intelligent instruments with higher performance.
近年来，新的应用也对智能仪表的设计提出了更高的要求。
AIM: To summarize and analyze the clinical curative effect and usage method of chitosan biological fluid dressing ( CBFD) in recant years.
目的：总结与分析近年来壳聚糖生物流体敷料膜在临床领域中的疗效及使用方法。
He was offered the opportunity to recant, but in good conscience he could not.
他被提供机会去放弃信仰，但良心让他做不到。
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，但他决不改变过来。
Galileo was accused of heresy in1633 and forced to publicly recant his theories.
伽利略的学说1633年被指控为异端邪说，他被迫公开表示放弃自己的观点。
Released and paraded around the capital, she refused to recant. Instead, she repeated her accusations.
她非但不放弃信仰，相反，她不屈从于对她的指控。
In the past, the church ordered people charged with heresy to be burned to death if they did not recant.
过去，教会命令，要是那些被控异端的人不放其其信仰的话就把他们烧死。