recanted
英 [rɪˈkæntɪd]
美 [rɪˈkæntɪd]
v. 公开宣布放弃(原先的信仰、观点等)
recant的过去分词和过去式
柯林斯词典
- VERB 公开放弃（信仰或意见）
If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.- White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
白宫官员命令威廉斯公开宣布放弃自己的观点。 - ...a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy.
受严刑折磨后仍拒绝放弃其异教信仰的人
- White House officials ordered Williams to recant.
双语例句
- She later recanted this confession.
然而随后，她又推翻了自己的口供。 - Never allow my affections to be recanted or stop marveling at you behind to also marvel at your warmth, your wit, your refusal to condone animal, your inability to boil water.
决不允许自己的感情否认或停止对你的惊叹，惊叹于你的温暖，你的幽默，你拒绝宽恕屠杀动物者，和永远仰慕你永远烧不开一壶水的能力。 - Under duress from the Inquisition in1633, Galileo recanted his theory that the earth revolves around the sun.
一六三三年，伽利略在宗教裁判所的威逼之下，宣布放弃自己的地动论。 - He later recanted his confession.
他之后又翻供了。 - Under threat of death, men recanted their religion before the altar.
在死亡的威胁下，人们在祭坛前宣称放弃自己信仰的宗教。 - She recanted her faith and became a Christian.
她宣布放弃原有信仰，成为一名基督徒。