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recollect

/rek-uh-lekt/US // ˌrɛk əˈlɛkt //UK // (ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt) //

忆起,记起,追忆,回忆

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to recall to mind; recover knowledge of by memory; remember.
    • : to absorb in spiritual meditation, especially during prayer.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to have a recollection; remember.

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Examples

  • By the end, I could probably recollect every blade of grass.

  • Once these memories are formed, a partial prompt can easily have you recollect them.

  • Without it, we couldn’t form and recollect distinct and meaningful memories since many aspects of any two memories would otherwise overlap.

  • Within it, she recollected her early years, spinning the dispersed wool of her babyhood into the tangled threads of her childhood.

  • However, in some cases, memory can become pathologically persistent, as when the memory of a traumatic experience—like an assault or a soldier’s time in combat—is recollected incessantly.

  • I stooped down and asked him how he felt himself, but he made no answer, and evidently did not recollect me.

  • They buried her body in the Recollect convent, with the greatest pomp possible.

  • He does not recollect the duty the engine performed with the cylindrical boilers.

  • We recollect sharing in the despondency, and even despair, which paralysed our party.

  • Hartledon sent his thoughts back, endeavouring to recollect what could have given rise to this charge.