reclaim
pronunciation
UK [rɪˈkleɪm]
US [rɪˈkleɪm]
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- vt.
- 开拓，开垦
- 感化
- 取回
- 沙化
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- n.
- 改造，感化
- 教化
- 回收再利用
- 收回，取回
Word Origin
reclaim 取回，拿回，挽救
re-,向后，往回，claim,声称，主张，要求。引申诸相关词义。
Example
- 1. In after the depression-era housing bust , dales writes , prices took 19 years to reclaim their previous peak .
- 戴尔斯写道，在大萧条时代房价大跌后，房价花了19年才重回高点。
- 2. Mr cameron wants to reclaim the streets , but residents demand more police where he intends to cut them .
- 卡梅隆先生希望想要回收这片街道，但当他试图减少援兵的时候民众却呼唤更多救兵。
- 3. And one other thing 's for sure : snow leopard uses substantially less disk storage than leopard , so you can reclaim some disk space too .
- 而另一件事是肯定的：雪豹和leopard相比在存储空间上大大降低，这样你就可以回收一些磁盘空间。
- 4. So the government , perversely , has an incentive to reclaim land on which to build .
- 所以，香港政府始终存在开垦土地建造房屋的动机。
- 5. Power cuts plunged the city into darkness , hampering efforts to reclaim the streets .
- 供电中断让整个城市陷入了黑暗，这样更多的阻碍了城市街道的改造。
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