recoil: [13] Recoil has no connection with coil. In fact, etymologically it means virtually ‘withdraw backside first’, for it was coined in French on the basis of cul ‘arse, backside’. This went back to Latin cūlus ‘arse’, which was probably related to Sanskrit kūla- ‘rearguard’.
recoil (n.)
c. 1300, "retreat," from Old French recul "recoil, backward movement, retreat," from reculer (see recoil (v.)). Meaning "back-kick of a firearm" is from 1570s.
recoil (v.)
early 13c. (transitive) "force back, drive back," from Old French reculer "to go back, give way, recede, retreat" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *reculare, from Latin re- "back" (see re-) + culus "backside, bottom, fundament." Meaning "shrink back, retreat" is first recorded c. 1300; and that of "spring back" (as a gun) in 1520s. Related: Recoiled; recoiling.
雙語例句
1. People used to recoil from the idea of getting into debt.
過去人們不能接受欠債這種事情。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His reaction was as much of a rebuff as a physical recoil.
他的反應既是身體的退縮，也是一種斷然的拒絕。
來自柯林斯例句
3. We are attracted by nice smells and recoil from nasty ones.
我們會被好聞的味道吸引，難聞的味道則會讓我們退避三舍。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Most people would recoil at the sight of the snake.
許多人看見蛇都會向后退縮.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Revenge may recoil upon the person who takes it.