- 1訴諸；可求助的辦法。合約／金融裡常另指「追索權」（without recourse = 無追索權）。
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. 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. Students meet that sense on contracts; it is not the first meaning in the sentence above, but it is the same spelling.
From the word’s history
From Middle English recours, from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, from recurrō.
經古法文 recours 來自拉丁文 recursus，源自 recurrō。
組成From Old French recours, from Latin recursus, from recurrō: re- (back) + the Latin for “run” — a running back to something for help.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
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; [...]
- 4
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/
- 1
obsoleteTo return; to recur.
- […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]
- 2
obsoleteTo have recourse; to resort.
- 3
obsoleteTo recurse (execute a procedure recursively).
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