reclaim
英 [rɪ'kleɪm]
美 [rɪ'klem]
- vt. 開拓；回收再利用；改造某人，使某人悔改
- vi. 抗議，喊叫
- n. 改造，感化；再生膠
助記提示
1. re- + -claim.
2. => "call back a hawk to the glove," hence "to make tame".
3. => "revoke" (a grant, gift, etc.).
4. => "recall (someone) from an erring course to a proper state".
5. => "get back by effort" might reflect influence of claim.
6. => "bring waste land into useful condition fit for cultivation". 其實就是馴化、改造土地，這是引申義。
7. reclaim <====> revoke, 構造及其部分引申義的原理相同。
8. 也就是喊回來、要回來。
中文詞源
reclaim 取回，拿回，挽救re-,向後，往回，claim,聲稱，主張，要求。引申諸相關詞義。
英文詞源
- reclaim (v.)
- early 14c., "call back a hawk to the glove," from Old French reclamer "to call upon, invoke; claim; seduce; to call back a hawk" (12c.) and directly from Latin reclamare "cry out against, contradict, protest, appeal," from re- "opposite, against" (see re-) + clamare "cry out" (see claim (v.)).
"Call back a hawk," hence "to make tame" (mid-15c.), "subdue, reduce to obedience, make amenable to control" (late 14c.). In many Middle English uses with no sense of return or reciprocation. Meaning "revoke" (a grant, gift, etc.) is from late 15c. That of "recall (someone) from an erring course to a proper state" is mid-15c. Sense of "get back by effort" might reflect influence of claim. Meaning "bring waste land into useful condition fit for cultivation" first attested 1764, probably on notion of "reduce to obedience." Related: Reclaimed; reclaiming.
雙語例句
- 1. What I've tried very subtly to do is to reclaim language.
- 我費盡心機在做的就是改造、拯救語言。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. "I've come to reclaim my property," she announced to the desk clerk.
- “我來要求歸還我的房產，”她向接待人員宣布。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. In 1986, they got the right to reclaim South African citizenship.
- 1986年，他們取得了恢複南非公民身份的權利。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. You'll have to go to the police station to reclaim your wallet.
- 你得到警察局去認領你的錢包。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. I have tried to reclaim my money without success.
- 我沒能把錢取回來.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》