| 单词 | recoil |
| 释义 | re·coil I. transitive verb obsolete intransitive verb 1. a. < the troops recoiled before the savage onslaught of the enemy > especially < recoiled under the heavy blows > b. < opened the door and recoiled in terror > 2. archaic < recoiled into the wilderness — William Wordsworth > 3. a. (1) (2) b. < their hatred recoiled on themselves > 4. obsolete Synonyms: < she makes a gesture as if to touch him. He recoils impatiently — G.B.Shaw > < he had so great a dread of snakes that he instinctively recoiled at the sight of one — T.B.Costain > shrink indicates an instinctive recoil through sensitiveness, scrupulousness, or cowardice < when it came to telling the truth about himself he shrank from the task with all the horror of a well-bred English gentleman — Virginia Woolf > < a nervous avoidance of crowds, a shrinking from any change in her secluded manner of living — Ellen Glasgow > < to shrink from responsibility is to invite social and economic insecurity — H.G.Armstrong > flinch involves a recoiling, retreating, or evading when one cannot muster up resolution to face the frightening, painful, or revolting < all retreat was cut off, and he looked his fate in the face without flinching — John Burroughs > < he raised the head that lay in the dust with cautious strength, fearing that any touch might only be so much more needless pain. But there was no appearance of flinching — W.F.De Morgan > < did not flinch from the contemplation of the violent aggression — J.H.Plumb > wince applies to an involuntary starting back or away caused by sensitiveness, dread, fear, or pain < to bring a beaten and degraded look into a man's face, rend manhood out of him in fear, is a sight that makes decent men wince in pain; for it is an outrage on the decency of life, an offense to natural religion, a violation of the human sanctities — G.D.Brown > < her eyes winced for a moment as if she had become suddenly afraid — Liam O'Flaherty > < he winced as though she had uttered blasphemy — W.J.Locke > blench may refer especially to fainthearted fearful flinching < she had not been prepared for an attack in flank, and blenched before it — Maurice Hewlett > < though his death seemed near he did not blench — John Masefield > quail implies cowering and shrinking in fright, consternation, or defeated dejection < despite his professions of sanity and reason, had an inexplicable, invincible horror of death; he quailed at the mere mention of the black phantom — Norman Douglas > < I am never known to quail at the fury of a gale — W.S.Gilbert > Synonym: see in addition rebound. II. 1. a. b. < the recoil from formalism is skepticism — F.W.Robertson > 2. |
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