v. 恢复,回复(到以前的状态、制度或行为); 回到,重提,重新考虑(某个话题); (财产、权力、金钱等)归还,归属 revert的过去分词和过去式
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VERB 恢复,回复(到以前的状态、制度或行为) When people or things revert to a previous state, system, or type of behaviour, they go back to it.
Jackson said her boss became increasingly depressed and reverted to smoking heavily. 杰克逊说她的老板情绪越来越低落,又开始拼命抽烟了。
VERB 回到,重提,重新考虑(某个话题) When someone reverts to a previous topic, they start talking or thinking about it again.
In the car she reverted to the subject uppermost in her mind. 在车里,她又提起了她最关心的话题。
VERB 重新使用(惯用的语言) If you revert to your usual language, you start using that language again.
After all these years she had reverted to her Veneto dialect and nobody could understand what she was saying. 这么多年后,她又开始讲威尼托方言,没有人能听懂她的话。
VERB (财产、权力、金钱等)归还,归属 If property, rights, or money revert to someone, they become that person's again after someone else has had them for a period of time.
When the lease ends, the property reverts to the freeholder. 租期结束后,该房产会归还给其终身所有者。
PHRASE 恢复原样;故态复萌 If you say that someone has reverted to type, you mean that they are now behaving as you would expect them to, after having behaved in an unexpected and better way.
He was adamant that this setback does not mean he has reverted to type. 他坚持认为这次挫折并不意味着他已经回到原来的样子。