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外刊例句
- America abandoned Moon shots 41 months later, and attempts to revive them have never appeared convincing.
41个月后美国关闭了登月计划,此后重启该项目的努力都流于空谈。
——《经济学人》 - Under pressure to revive the economy, and facing big-ticket demands from the far left, Biden pursued expansive spending for too long.
在重振经济的压力下,同时面对极左翼的高额要求,拜登进行扩张性支出的时间太长了。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] restore to life or consciousness
[动词] 复活或恢复意识
深入解读
Revive 是一个与熟词 survive 有着相同结尾且同词根 viv (生命)的单词。
该词由前缀 re- (重新)+ 词根 viv (生命)+ e 构成,于15世纪初经古法语 revivre 或者直接由拉丁语 revivere (复活)进入英语,即用来表示“(使)苏醒、复活、复元”,主要指人从昏迷、昏厥、休克等死亡般的状态中恢复过来,也常用来指沮丧的精神、垂死的植物等恢复到先前活力生气的状态,比如:
- 护理人员无法使那个酒鬼苏醒。
The paramedics couldn't revive the wine fiend.
从这个概念出发,到了15世纪中期后, revive 开始引申指“振兴、重振、复苏”,多指使经济、艺术、时尚、风俗、传统、希望、信心等再次活跃、流行或成功,比如:
- 应该恢复这一独特的风俗。
This quaint custom should be revived. - 使某人重新燃起希望/重树信心/时来运转
to revive sb's hopes/confidence/fortunes
再到了1823年后, revive 进一步用来表示“重新上演、重新上映”喜剧、歌剧、芭蕾等,也就是经过一段时间后,把一出老戏、一部旧片重新搬上舞台或荧幕,比如:
- 这部20世纪40年代的音乐剧正在国家剧院重新上演。一晃就是70年过去了。
This 1940s musical is being revived at the National Theatre. Seventy years have elapsed in a flash.
名著用例
He moves more; he is beginning to revive, and to speak intelligibly; he thinks they are still together; he asks him, by his name, what he has in his hand.
昏迷的人的动作多了起来。他开始苏醒,说话也听得清了。他以为他俩还在一起,他叫着卡尔顿的名字,问他手上拿的是什么。
出自英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯(Charles Dickens)创作的长篇历史小说《双城记》(A Tale of Two Cities)。
同近义词
- resuscitate: revive (someone) from unconsciousness or apparent death
- revivify: give new life or vigor to
- revitalize: imbue (something) with new life and vitality