revert
英 [rɪ'vɜːt]
美 [rɪ'vɝt]
- vi. 回复；重提；返祖遗传；归还
- vt. 使回复原状
- n. 恢复原状者
- n. (Revert)人名；(西)雷韦特；(法)勒韦尔
助记提示
1、re- "back" + vert-.
2、字面含义：turn back, return.
3、该词的构造及其含义可以说与return是异曲同工。
中文词源
revert 回转，回复，恢复re-,向后，往回，-vert,转，词源同 pervert,perverse.
英文词源
- revert (v.)
- c. 1300, "to come to oneself again," from Old French revertir "return, change back," from Vulgar Latin *revertire, variant of Latin revertere "turn back, turn about; come back, return," from re- "back" (see re-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Of position or property from mid-15c.; application to customs and ideas is from 1610s.
双语例句
- 1. Garden plants sometimes revert to type.
- 园艺植物有时会恢复其原来的野生形态.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. When it returns to shore, the life-jacket will deflate and revert to a harness.
- 返回岸上后，救生衣就会瘪掉，恢复成背带状。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. They will revert to tilling the earth in an old-fashioned way.
- 他们将回归到用老方法耕地。
来自辞典例句
- 4. Must he revert to Ellen always?
- 难道他非提到母亲不行?
来自飘（部分）
- 5. Peasants were allowed to adhere or revert to individual farming in Poland.
- 波兰允许农民坚持或倒退到个体农业.
来自辞典例句