reclaim

英 [rɪ'kleɪm] 美 [rɪ'klem]

解释

※ 提供单词"reclaim"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

reclaim 取回，拿回，挽救

re-,向后，往回，claim,声称，主张，要求。引申诸相关词义。

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.

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1. What I've tried very subtly to do is to reclaim language.: 我费尽心机在做的就是改造、拯救语言。

2. "I've come to reclaim my property," she announced to the desk clerk.: “我来要求归还我的房产，”她向接待人员宣布。

3. In 1986, they got the right to reclaim South African citizenship.: 1986年，他们取得了恢复南非公民身份的权利。

4. You'll have to go to the police station to reclaim your wallet.: 你得到警察局去认领你的钱包。