英语词典 · 单词释义
retort
英 [rɪ'tɔːt] 美 [rɪ'tɔrt]
这里集中整理“retort”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 反驳，顶嘴；曲颈瓶
- vt. 反驳，反击
- vi. 反驳，回嘴
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: retorts;第三人称单数: retorts;过去式: retorted;过去分词: retorted;现在分词: retorting;
中文词源
retort 回应，反驳
re-,相对，相反，-tort,弯，转，词源同 torture,turn.引申词义回应，反驳。
英文词源
- retort
- retort: see torment
- retort (v.)
- 1550s, "make return in kind" (especially of an injury), from Old French retort and directly from Latin retortus, past participle of retorquere "turn back, twist back, throw back," from re- "back" (see re-) + torquere "to twist" (see torque (n.)). Applied to exchanges of jest or sarcasm by c. 1600, hence "say or utter sharply and aggressively in reply" (1620s). Related: Retorted; retorting.
- retort (n.1)
- "act of retorting," c. 1600, from retort (v.).
- retort (n.2)
- "vessel used in chemistry for distilling or effecting decomposition by the aid of heat," c. 1600, from Middle French retorte, from Medieval Latin *retorta "a retort, a vessel with a bent neck," literally "a thing bent or twisted," from past participle stem of Latin retorquere (see retort (v.)).
双语例句
- 1. His sharp retort clearly made an impact.
- 他尖刻的反驳显然起了作用。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Her retort was mechanical.
- 她的反驳是脱口而出的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He scored a bull's - eye in their argument with that witty retort.
- 在他们的辩论中他那一句机智的反驳击中了要害.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He opened his mouth to make a caustic retort.
- 他张嘴开始进行刻薄的反击.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. I said a few words to him in retort.
- 我顶了他几句.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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