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redivivus

/red-uh-vahy-vuhs, -vee-/US // ˌrɛd əˈvaɪ vəs, -ˈvi- //UK // (ˌrɛdɪˈvaɪvəs) //

重振旗鼓,重振雄风,重活,重获新生

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : living again; revived.

Examples

  • A sort of Robinson Crusoe redivivus, with modern settings and a very pretty love story added.

  • In virile quality, Madame de Stael seemed rediviva, or should we keep the more familiar masculine gender, and say redivivus?

  • People used to call him 'John the Baptist Redivivus': and without doubt he did suggest something of that sort.

  • It was French, the ubiquitous French—French redivivus, as it were—who was putting the finishing touch to the chapter of disaster.

  • Was then this unpleasant visitor to Fitzroy Square no other than that magician redivivus?