把失去的拿回來
這一族直接就是核心畫面：失而復得。
get back something lost · verb · B2
To get back something you had before and then lost, especially an ability, a quality, or a position such as your balance, your strength, or control of something.
重新獲得；恢復
核心畫面
Picture something that was yours, slipped away, and then came back into your hands. The re- is the whole point: you are not getting it for the first time — you are closing a loop that opened when you lost it.
本來屬於你的東西，中間掉了、失去了，然後又回到你手上。重點在那個 re-（再一次）：不是第一次得到，而是把中間斷掉的…更多收起
本來屬於你的東西，中間掉了、失去了，然後又回到你手上。重點在那個 re-（再一次）：不是第一次得到，而是把中間斷掉的那一段接回去。所以用這個字的時候，句子背後一定藏著一段「曾經有 → 失去 → 拿回來」的故事。例如一個人跌了一下、身體晃了兩秒，然後 regain his balance——他的平衡本來就在，只是暫時被打斷。這也是為什麼 regain 幾乎都接那些你「原本就有」的東西：力氣、意識、信心、控制權。Two branches
重回某地（書面）
同一個「回到原處」的畫面，只是拿回來的不是能力或地位，而是你原本站的那個位置。
arrive back at a place · verb · B2
To arrive at a place again after you have left it or been carried away from it, for example a shore, a road, or a seat. This use is found mostly in stories and other writing.
回到（某地）；重新抵達
原始詞典資料3 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。
regainverb/ɹiːˈɡeɪn/
- 1
To get back; to recover possession of.
- DUKAT: I blame no one but myself. I was indiscreet. I compromised myself and have been punished accordingly. If someone under my command had behaved so outrageously, I would do the same thing to him. Besides, I assure you, this is only a temporary setback. Everything I have lost, I will regain. It's only a matter of time.
- Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.
regainnoun/ɹiːˈɡeɪn/
- 1
The act or process of regaining something.
- Patients who plateau after weight loss are more likely to blame the regain on something that they are responsible for – the wrong course of action they took or a specic oversight that they kept repeating–rather than who they are.
- By beginning deeper, this allows the opposition to start and build much higher, naturally luring them away from their own goal. As long as the actions after a regain are then quick, forward, and performed with quality, counter-attacks can prove a particularly useful attacking strategy to win football matches.
- 2
businessmanufacturingtextilesThe amount of width a woven cloth grows by when the fibers swell, used to determine the width of the reed to use in weaving.
- The number of ends per inch may vary to some slight extent at different places in the width of the cloth and in different pieces woven to the same particulars , but if the regain is correctly estimated , the calculated reed to be used will be the same, unless a special reed has been used in weaving the cloth.
- In particular, at high humidities the regain of wool is lower.
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。