单词 | recall |
释义 | re·call I. 1. a. < was recalled from abroad to report to the government > < was recalled to active service > < other automotive divisions will recall their hourly workers — Sacramento (Calif.) Bee > < is thought that his soul has quitted his body and must be recalled — J.G.Frazer > b. < the sight of the streets thronged with buyers … recall ed to me the purpose of my journey — James Joyce > < knowledge of an event or fact which the sign recalls — Edward Clodd > c. < look with suspicion upon anything that might savor of economic exploitation or recall old imperialist ideas — Arthur Rucker > < the rectangular, four-story mass of unusually high proportions recalls numerous courthouse designs of the period — American Guide Series: New York > d. < seem always to recall him in his brown velvet smock — Osbert Sitwell > < recalling the emotions and events and spectacles which have come to a man with the years — P.E.More > 2. < past sentence may not be recalled — Shakespeare > 3. < beauty … whose season was, and cannot be recalled — William Wordsworth > 4. < trying to recall her stunned senses — George Meredith > < stared and recalled himself and was ashamed — Pearl Buck > Synonyms: see remember, revoke II. 1. a. < the recall of an ambassador from his post > < the recall of a reserve officer to active duty > < announced the recall of 500 workers after a 2-week layoff > b. (1) (2) c. < nearly one third of the states allow the recall to be used by all cities — J.E.Pate > < recall election > 2. < mere recall of past memories without integrating them in terms of current reality is ineffective — M.H.Erickson > < could remember strange streets, bays, oceans, harbors, countrysides with almost total visual recall — Henry Wallace > 3. < the war is completed — the price is paid — the title is settled beyond recall — Walt Whitman > < this is a matter past recall — Robert Browning > III. 1. 2. |
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