单词 | recur | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | recurre‧cur /rɪˈkɜː $ -ɜːr/ ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle recurred, present participle recurring) [intransitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINrecur Verb TableOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin recurrere ‘to run back’, from currere ‘to run’VERB TABLE recur
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Longman Language Activatorto happen again► happen again Collocations · She apologized for the incident and promised it wouldn't happen again.· I think I've solved the problem with your computer, but let me know if it happens again. ► recur formal to happen again, once or repeatedly: · Although the treatment for skin cancer is usually successful, the problem can recur later.· Some people find that the same dream keeps recurring over a period of many years. ► repetition/repeat an event or action that is the same as something that happened before: repetition/repeat of: · Hopefully, the experience will help us to avoid a repetition of our mistakes.· A lot of the lesson was just a repetition of what we'd already done.· Will next Saturday's game be a repeat of Germany's triumph last season? ► repeat performance something that happens in exactly the same way as it happened before, usually with all the same problems: · The journey to work had taken hours that morning, and I wasn't looking forward to a repeat performance on the way home.repeat performance of: · We must try to make this summer camp a success. We don't want a repeat performance of last year's disaster. ► repeat itself use this to say that things happen again in just the same way: · Stricter controls of farming methods are needed, if we want to prevent the disaster from repeating itself.history repeats itself: · The Cambodian people were afraid that history would repeat itself. WORD SETS► Mathsabacus, nounalgebra, nounangle, nounarc, nounarea, nounarithmetic, nounarithmetic, adjectivearithmetic progression, nounaxis, nounbar chart, nounbar graph, nounbase, nounbinomial, nounbisect, verbBoolean, adjectiveC, nouncalculator, nouncalculus, nouncanonical, adjectivechord, nouncipher, nouncircumference, nouncircumscribe, verbcompass, nouncomplementary, adjectivecomputation, nouncompute, verbconcentric, adjectivecone, nouncongruent, adjectiveconical, adjectiveconstant, nouncontain, verbcoordinate, nouncoordinate, adjectivecos, cosine, nouncube, nouncubic, adjectivecurvature, nouncurve, nouncut, verbdeci-, prefixdeviation, noundiagonal, adjectivediameter, noundifferential calculus, noundigit, noundimension, noundomain, nouneccentric, adjectiveellipse, nounelliptical, adjectiveequal, adjectiveequal, verbequals sign, nounequation, nounequilateral triangle, nounexponential, adjectiveexpress, verbexpression, nounface, nounfigure, nounflow chart, nounformula, nounfraction, nounfractional, adjectivefunction, noungeometric, adjectivegeometry, noungraph, noungraphically, adverbgraph paper, noungrid, nounHCF, helix, nounheptagon, nounhexagon, nounhistogram, nounhypotenuse, nounimperial, adjectiveimproper fraction, nouninfinity, nouninformation theory, nouninnumerate, adjectiveinto, prepositioninverse, adjectiveisosceles triangle, nounline graph, log, nounlogarithm, nounlong division, nounlozenge, nounmath, nounmathematical, adjectivemathematician, nounmathematics, nounmatrix, nounmean, adjectivemedian, nounmedian, adjectivemetric, adjectiveminus, prepositionminus, nounminus, adjectiveminus sign, nounminute, nounmultiplication, nounmultiplication sign, nounmultiplication table, nounmultiply, verbN, nounnumber, nounnumerate, adjectivenumeration, nounoblong, adjectiveobtuse angle, nounoctagon, nounoval, nounparabola, nounparallel, adjectiveparallelogram, nounpentagon, nounpercentage, nounperimeter, nounperpendicular, nounpi, nounpictogram, nounpie chart, nounplane, nounplane geometry, nounplus, prepositionplus, nounplus, adjectiveplus sign, nounpolygon, nounpolyhedron, nounpower, nounprism, nounprobability, nounproof, nounproportion, nounproposition, nounprotractor, nounquadrangle, nounquadrant, nounquadratic equation, nounquadri-, prefixquadrilateral, nounradius, nounratio, nounrectangle, nounrectilinear, adjectiverecur, verbrhombus, nounright angle, nounright-angled triangle, nounroot, nounruler, nounscale, nounscalene triangle, nounscatter diagram, section, nounsegment, nounsemicircle, nounset square, nounsine, nounslide rule, nounsolid, adjectivesolid, nounsolution, nounsolve, verbsphere, nounsquare, adjectivesquare, nounsquare, verbsquare, adverbsquarely, adverbsquare root, nounsubset, nounsubtract, verbsubtraction, nounsum, nounsurface area, nounsymmetrical, adjectivesymmetry, nountangent, nounterm, nountheorem, nounthreefold, adjectivetimes, prepositiontrapezium, nountriangle, nountrigonometry, nountwo-dimensional, adjectivevalue, nounvariable, nounvector, nounVenn diagram, nounvertex, nounvertical, adjectivevolume, nounwork, verbX, nounx-axis, nouny-axis, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► recurring theme 1if something, especially something bad or unpleasant, recurs, it happens again: There is a danger that the disease may recur. Love is a recurring theme in the book.recurring dream/nightmare2technical if a number or numbers after a decimal point recur, they are repeated for ever in the same order Love is a recurring theme in the book. ► recurring dream/nightmareCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a recurrent/recurring dream (=that you have many times)· Having recurrent dreams is a very common experience. ► a recurring feature (=one that happens again and again)· Humour is a recurring feature of her novels. ► a recurrent/recurring theme (=one that appears several times)· Returning to traditional values was a major theme of the president’s speech. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► frequently· Here, expressed in ecclesiastical terms, was the distinction between North and South which recurs frequently in writings of the period. NOUN► problem· In anticipation that the same problem might recur this summer I tried sowing some sweet peas with the runner beans.· Two problems recur in attempts to adopt any of the above solutions to the problem of natural monopoly.· The guarantee only agrees to re-treat the affected areas - it does not guarantee that the problem will not recur.· Threadworm is easily treated but unless the following precautions are taken the problem may recur. ► theme· Two themes recur throughout our discussion of welfare economics in Part 3.· And not only do the themes recur, but they overlap.· Particular themes recur in any discussion of Andrew Lloyd Webber.· Four themes recurred throughout the research.· These themes constantly recur up to the First World War.· Some themes recur in several papers and this is indicative of their urgency.· Four themes recur throughout this volume. |
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