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Recurrent means happening or appearing several times, not just once. A recurrent problem keeps turning up. Recurrent dreams visit you again and again. In medicine, recurrent pain or a recurrent infection comes back after it seemed to go. The word is a little formal and is common in reports and clinics. Recurring is a close cousin, and in everyday English you can often use either; recurrent sounds a bit more ‘set in a pattern,’ especially in medical talk. It does not mean the thing happens every minute. The gaps can be weeks or years. It only says this is not the first time.
反覆的、復發的
組成From Latin recurrens, the ‘running back’ form of recurrere. In English it is also simply recur + -ent.
同家族的字
- recurthe verb this adjective is built from
- recurrencethe noun: one return of the thing
- recurrentlythe adverb form
原始詞典資料4 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。
recurrentadj/ɹɪˈkʌɹənt/
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Recurring; happening time after time.
- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
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mathematicssciencesNon-transient.
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anatomybiologybotanyRunning back toward its origin.
- a recurrent nerve or artery
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesTurned back toward the base.
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。