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Recourse is what you turn to in order to deal with a problem — the path you take, or the act of taking it. In careful English it often comes in the phrase have recourse to: “They had recourse to the courts” means they used the law because other ways were not enough. It sounds formal, even legal.
Recourserecourse is what you turn to in order to deal with a problem是你為了解決問題而求助的辦法 — the path you take你採取的那條路, or the act of taking it或是採取那個行動這件事。In careful English it often comes in the phrase have recourse to在講究的英文裡,常出現在have recourse to這個片語裡: "They had recourse to the courts"「They had recourse to the courts」 means they used the law because other ways were not enough意思是因為其他辦法都不夠,所以訴諸法律。It sounds formal, even legal聽起來很正式,甚至帶點法律味。
Last recourse sits close to last resort. Day to day, most people say “we had to go to the police” rather than “we had recourse to the police.” Though actually, in money and trade the word can get sharper: a loan “without recourse” means the lender cannot come after you for the debt in the ordinary way.
Last recourselast recourse sits close to last resort跟last resort意思很接近。Day to day, most people say "we had to go to the police"日常生活裡,大部分人會說「we had to go to the police」 rather than "we had recourse to the police."而不是「we had recourse to the police」。Though actually, in money and trade the word can get sharper不過其實在金融和貿易裡,這個字的意思會更明確: a loan "without recourse"一筆「without recourse」的貸款 means the lender cannot come after you for the debt in the ordinary way意思是放款人不能用一般方式向你追討這筆債。
Students meet that sense on contracts; it is not the first meaning in the sentence above, but it is the same spelling.
Students meet that sense on contracts學生會在合約裡遇到這個意思; it is not the first meaning in the sentence above不是前面例句裡的第一個意思, but it is the same spelling但拼法是一樣的。
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
recoursenoun/ɹɪˈkɔːs/
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The act of seeking assistance or advice.
- Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him
- All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.
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The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
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obsoleteA coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
- [B]y the ſwift recourſe of fluſhing blood / Right plaine appeard, though ſhe it would diſſemble, / And fayned ſtill her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.
- For Phyſick is either curative or preventive; Preventive we call that which by purging noxious humors, and the cauſes of diſeases, preventeth ſickneſs in the healthy, or the recourſe thereof in the valetudinary; [...]
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obsoleteAccess; admittance.
- [...] Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd ſacke, to giue me recourſe to him, and tell him my name is Broome: onely for a ieſt.
recourseverb/ɹɪˈkɔːs/
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obsoleteTo return; to recur.
- […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]
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obsoleteTo have recourse; to resort.
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obsoleteTo recurse (execute a procedure recursively).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。