词汇 | recede |
释义 | recede verb[ I ] uk /rɪˈsiːd/ us /rɪˈsiːd/ to move further away into the distance, or to become less clear or less bright: 逐渐远离;变得模糊,逐渐淡漠 As the boat picked up speed, the coastline receded into the distance until finally it became invisible.船越开越快,海岸线渐渐远去,直至最后从视线中消失。 The painful memories gradually receded in her mind.痛苦的记忆逐渐在她脑海中变得淡漠了。 Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction dwindle dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off halve reduce reducible reduction resize retreat trough tumble recede | American Dictionaryrecede verb[ I ] us/rɪˈsid/ to move further away into the distance, or to become less clear: McLaughlin expects to go home again when the flood waters recede. If a man has a receding hairline, he is losing the hair from the front of his head. recede | Business Englishrecede verb[ I ] uk /rɪˈsiːd/us to get lower in value, amount, or number: Opposition to privatisation and foreign investment is receding in response to the shock of recession. Although oil prices receded somewhat in June, they rose again this week. Examples of recederecede Often, the melodies themselves recede into the background and become merely a stimulus to enliven the performers' creative imagination. When possible, they avoid infested zones until the flies recede to their limited permanent habitations. Moreover, as among men, this activity largely receded into insignificance with the progression of age (3.2 % for the age group 40 and more). The lack of sustained growth in expenditure on this service is perhaps unsurprising, given the receding threat of epidemics. Inevitably, other angles of approach recede to the background, but the five themes that shape this volume do constitute reasonable domains for exploration. By contrast, silk-gauze-weaving receded into insignificance with progressing age (2.1 % among those aged 40 and more). Then, communitarian formulations recede as the patient again has an individual identity. This feature recedes in the speech of those who reject local identity. A related problem concerns the shape of a receding meniscus in a channel. If 0ah0 and 0e0 did in fact follow a collision course, we would expect that one or the other would recede from low front position. Blocks with water extraction more than recharge indicate receding water table zones. When allografts were rejected, the graft epidermis receded from the borders of the graft so that rejection was easily recognizable. As the residual trees grow and forest regeneration occurs, the baseflow would recede to the normal flow. Bowring's concern with racial purity did not recede in later years. First, flood-water rice cultivation involved the transplanting of seedlings into fresh-water pools, which remained as rivers receded after seasonal flooding. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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