| 单词 | rebound |
| 释义 | re·bound I. intransitive verb 1. a. < a lattice or diffraction grating from which the electrons would rebound — Current Biography > b. < rebounded less quickly from disappointment — Ellen Glasgow > < was supposed to fall in love with someone else quickly … but she herself had rebounded differently — G.R.Stewart > 2. < released from the downward pull, the submerged crustal material would rebound upward — A.E.Benfield > 3. < such a resounding whack that the echoes rebounded from the mountains forty miles away — Darrell Berrigan > transitive verb 1. 2. Synonyms: < a ball rebounding from the wall > < literature is rebounding again from the scientific-classical pole to the poetic-romantic one — Edmund Wilson > reverberate is used of waves or rays that bound back or are forced back, reflected, or deflected; it is most typically used of sound and suggests loud reechoing < the explosion reverberated between a series of low ridges, sounding like some giant's bowling ball — F.V.W.Mason > < its acoustics are magnificent: the merest mumble reverberates like the solemn voice of judgment — Green Peyton > < she presents even simple subjects with a perceptiveness that makes them reverberate in the mind — Babette Deutsch > recoil applies to a springing or flying back, commonly in consequence of a release of pressure or stretching, to or against a point of origin, or in retreat, receding, or shrinking in apprehension or revulsion < a spring recoiling to its natural position > < military commentators recoiled from the spectacle as if it were two loathsome for remark — S.L.A.Marshall > resile may apply to a resilient but not abrupt drawing back to a former position < the rubber attachments resiling at the normal temperatures > < apprehensive about the agreement and trying to resile to his former unattached position > repercuss, now notably less common than the noun repercussion, implies the return of something moving ahead with or as if with great force back to or toward the starting point < sickness produces an abnormally sensitive emotional state in almost everyone, and in many cases the emotional state repercusses, as it were, on the organic disease — F.W.Peabody > II. 1. a. < the reflection of light was just a rebound of the light particles from an elastic surface — S.F.Mason > < the origin of nationalism in Asia was in the nature of a rebound from the European imperialism of the last century — B.R.Sen > b. < strength in selected issues … ushered in a sharp rebound in prices — J.G.Forrest > 2. < such rebounds our inward ear catches sometimes from afar — William Wordsworth > 3. a. < grabbed the rebound and sank a basket > b. < leads the league in rebounds > 4. < is also on the rebound, not from ennui but from a dead lover — Time > < caught the middle class on the rebound, and received perhaps a million votes which in subsequent elections it failed to hold — Times Literary Supplement > |
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