核心畫面
Something has gone out of your hands — left behind, filed away, slipping out of control — and you go and bring it back. Two parts matter: it was yours or within your reach before, and you have to go and get it. Whether the thing is a coat, a file, or a losing situation, the movement is the same: back toward you.
可以想成：某樣東西離開了你的手——忘在別處、存進系統裡、或是眼看要失控——你去把它帶回來。重點有兩個：它本來是你的、…更多收起
可以想成：某樣東西離開了你的手——忘在別處、存進系統裡、或是眼看要失控——你去把它帶回來。重點有兩個：它本來是你的、或在你掌握之內；而且你得主動去取。不管拿回來的是一件外套、一份檔案，還是快要崩掉的局面，方向都一樣：往回，回到你這邊。原始詞典資料15 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。
retrieveverb/ɹɪˈtɹiːv/
- 1
To regain or get back something.
- to retrieve one's character or independence; to retrieve a thrown ball
- With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
- 2
To rescue (a creature).
- 3
To salvage something
- 4
To remedy or rectify something.
- 5
To remember or recall something.
- 6
To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits
- 7
To fetch and bring in game.
- The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved.
- 8
To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
- 9
To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
- Most dogs love retrieving, regardless of what object is thrown.
- 10
hobbieslifestylesportsTo make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- 11
obsoleteTo remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
- Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
- There is much to be done […] and much to be retrieved.
retrievenoun/ɹɪˈtɹiːv/
- 1
A retrieval.
- Secondly, the number of retrieves given in any one session is restricted according to the dog's level of interest. If he is not madly keen he has perhaps two or three retrieves in a session, and on some days he will have none at all.
- 2
hobbieslifestylesportsThe return of a difficult ball.
- 3
obsoleteA seeking again; a discovery.
- 4
obsoleteThe recovery of game once sprung.
- we'll bring Wax to the retrieve
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。