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vi. 向后退, 退却, 收回, 降低, 减弱

[医] 退缩

[经] (价值)跌落, (质量)变坏




    recede


    Recede \Re*cede"\ (r[-e]*s[=e]d"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
    {Receded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Receding}.] [L. recedere,
    recessum; pref. re- re- + cedere to go, to go along: cf. F.
    rec['e]der. See {Cede}.]
    1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

    Like the hollow roar
    Of tides receding from the insulted shore. --Dryden.

    All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from
    the center. --Bentley.

    2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to
    relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to
    recede from a demand or proposition.

    Syn: To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw;
    desist.


    Recede \Re*cede"\ (r[=e]*s[=e]d"), v. t. [Pref. re- + cede. Cf.
    {Recede}, v. i.]
    To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor;
    as, to recede conquered territory.

    1. The Red River had started to recede in parts of Arkansas, but 100 National Guardsmen, reinforced by two helicopters hauling sandbags, labored to prevent the collapse of a levee guarding the town of Garland.
    2. Flood waters began to recede Sunday, and the government said it has received $236 million in aid to fight the destruction and disease caused by the worst floods in memory.
    3. Along the Amite and Comite rivers, responsible for most of the damage, people returned to their homes as floodwaters began to recede Sunday.
    4. Meanwhile, the threat of a legislated ceiling on credit card interest rates appeared to recede, removing another element that helped boost bond prices last week.
    5. Whaley said the Corps of Engineers had reported Sunday afternoon that the Obion River was beginning to recede, but that another inch or so of rain could send the water back into the emptied houses in Obion County and could cause additional flooding.
    6. As the floodwaters recede, the municipal corporation has been closing the 465 refugee centers set up in schools and colleges so classes can resume.
    7. Patches of foul-smelling mud emerged Tuesday as flood waters filled with sewage and rotting garbage continued to recede, and the government fought a losing battle against a diarrhea epidemic.
    8. Warm colors advance and appear closer; cool colors appear to recede.
    9. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, government workers and civilians were mobilized today to clean up the rain-soaked capital, and floodwaters from the worst rainstorm in 70 years began to recede.
    10. The Army Corps of Engineers predicted 700,000 acres will be flooded in Louisiana before the river and backwaters recede.
    11. Beverly Hills Motoring Accessories in California sells a $200 device that makes a stereo recede into the dash behind a plain locking flap.
    12. And as Picasso became an increasingly public man and grew to be the most famous artist of the century, the reclusive Braque tended to recede into the shadows.
    13. Skies were sunny today in the Houston area, where on Tuesday hundreds of stalled cars and trucks lined flooded roads and some motorists sat atop their vehicles as they waited for the water to recede.
    14. The more sugar a person eats, the more likely it is that his gums will recede, causing his teeth to loosen.
    15. They said that if the water did not recede soon, some of the country's rice crop would be destroyed.
    16. A poor result, but one that still leaves the bank in the black. If the economy fails to recover as soon as the government expects, then the threat of a squeeze on credit will recede.
    17. FCA won't realize these losses if rates recede and short-term rates remain stable, but competitors note that the potential losses far exceed FCA's net worth.
    18. After the tax cuts capped the growth in federal revenues, lo and behold, federal outlays began to recede as a percentage of GNP.
    19. "We hope to see these problems rooted in the past recede into the background and to make a new start in building a new relationship," Mr. Kaifu said.
    20. Most of the Camden evacuees were sent to an elementary school, but all had left by late morning when floodwaters began to recede.
    21. In Texas, water from the Trinity River still stood several feet deep Sunday in the Rochester Park area southeast of downtown Dallas, as residents spent a fourth day waiting for the water to recede.
    22. A newspaper account in 1983 said excessive tapping of the sea for irrigation had halved its depth in a decade and caused the shoreline to recede 40 miles in a few years.
    23. A damage estimate for Skagit County will not be available until flood waters recede and residents return, Stewart said.
    24. One town was an island and unknown number of people were homeless Friday in flood-stricken Kentucky, where several swollen rivers crested and began to recede, and sodden areas of Tennessee got a fifth consecutive day of rain.
    25. I wouldn't be surprised if profit margins across the whole industry peaked in the first half of 1995.' That profit margins will recede is a matter on which optimists and pessimists alike agree.
    26. The disruptive, distorting and bureaucratic nightmare being imposed on pupils and teachers by the government's reforms would recede. You also made the huge assumption that the government's version of testing would help to raise standards.
    27. How many foreign investors will indeed take their money out, what will be the flow of money back to South Africa?' Already, as sanctions begin to recede, capital flows are being influenced more by what Mr Stals calls 'normal economic factors'.
    28. If there is any reality to glasnost, we would expect that somewhere along the line the Samantha Smith and AIDS stories would recede.
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