The verb is pronounced /rɪ'kɔɪl/. The noun is pronounced /'riːkɔɪl/. 动词读作/rɪ'kɔɪl/。名词读作/'riːkɔɪl/。
- VERB 退缩;后退
If something makes you recoil, you move your body quickly away from it because it frightens, offends, or hurts you.
- For a moment I thought he was going to kiss me. I recoiled in horror...
我当时以为他要亲我,所以吓得直往后退。 - We are attracted by nice smells and recoil from nasty ones.
我们会被好闻的味道吸引,难闻的味道则会让我们退避三舍。 - Recoil is also a noun.
- His reaction was as much of a rebuff as a physical recoil.
他的反应既是身体的退缩,也是一种断然的拒绝。 - ...his small body jerking in recoil from the volume of his shouting.
他的小身板儿被他的喊叫声吓得猛地一缩
- VERB (因为不喜欢而)拒绝,回绝,退避
If you recoil from doing something or recoil at the idea of something, you refuse to do it or accept it because you dislike it so much.
- People used to recoil from the idea of getting into debt...
过去人们不能接受欠债这种事情。 - She recoiled at the number of young girls who had to live by selling their bodies.
那么多年轻的女孩不得不靠出卖肉体谋生,她觉得难以接受。
- N-SING (枪炮的)反冲
The recoil of a gun is the quick backward movement that it makes when it is fired.
- The policeman fires again, tensed against the recoil, unleashing round after round at his assailant...
警察再次开火,紧抵着反冲机构,不断向袭击他的人射击。 - I assembled the weapon, checked the firing and recoil mechanism and loaded it.
我把家伙组装起来,检查了一下击发和反冲机构,装上子弹。