re·call
verb/rɪˈkɔːl/
/rɪˈkɔːl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they recall | /rɪˈkɔːl/ /rɪˈkɔːl/ |
| he / she / it recalls | /rɪˈkɔːlz/ /rɪˈkɔːlz/ |
| past simple recalled | /rɪˈkɔːld/ /rɪˈkɔːld/ |
| past participle recalled | /rɪˈkɔːld/ /rɪˈkɔːld/ |
| -ing form recalling | /rɪˈkɔːlɪŋ/ /rɪˈkɔːlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] (formal) (not used in the progressive tenses) to remember something
记起；回忆起；回想起 - recall something She could not recall his name.
她想不起他的名字。 - Many years later Muir recalled his days at Glasgow University.
许多年后，缪尔重新回忆起他在格拉斯哥大学的日子。 - I cannot recall a time when the country faced such serious problems.
我想不出这个国家何时曾面临如此严重的问题。 - ‘I may have; I don't recall,’ she said.
“我可能有，我不记得了。”她说。 - If I recall correctly, he lives in Luton.
如果我没记错的话，他住在卢顿。 - recall doing something I can't recall meeting her before.
我想不起来以前曾经见过她。 - I vaguely recall seeing the film.
我依稀记得看过这部电影。 - I seem to recall receiving an email from a reader a while ago.
我似乎记得不久前收到过一位读者的电子邮件。 - recall somebody/something doing something I seem to recall him mentioning a brother once.
我好像记得他有一次提到过一个兄弟。 - recall that… He recalled that she always came home late on Wednesdays.
他回想起她星期三总是晚回家。 - He later recalled that he had met her once.
他后来回忆起来，他曾见过她一次。 - recall what, when, etc. Can you recall exactly what happened?
你能记起到底发生了什么事吗？ - I can vividly recall where and when I saw them.
我可以清楚地记得我在何时何地见过他们。 - recall + speech ‘It was on a Thursday in March,’ he recalled.
“那是三月份的一个星期四。”他回忆道。
Extra Examples- Becky could still recall that first meeting clearly.
贝姬还能清晰地记起初次见面的情景。 - I am old enough now to wistfully recall moments of my youth.
我现在一把年纪了，每当想起年轻的岁月时就会感到怅然若失。 - I couldn't quite recall the date.
我不太想得起那个日子了。 - I recall reading in an interview that he loved to cook.
我想起读到过他在一次访谈中谈到喜欢做饭。 - I seem to recall that she said she was going away.
我似乎记得她说过打算离开。 - I well recall walking the five miles to school every morning.
我清楚地记得每天早上步行 5 英里去学校。 - She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.
她常常回忆起那个柑橘园的芳香。 - She recalled how she would go for walks along the beach late at night.
她想起深夜在海边漫步的情形。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- clearly
- distinctly
- vividly
- …
- seem to
- be able to
- can
- …
- recall how…
- recall seeing, reading, hearing, etc. something
- recall something She could not recall his name.
- [transitive] recall something (not used in the progressive tenses) to make somebody think of something
使想起；使想到；勾起 - The poem recalls Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’.
这首诗令人想起艾略特的《荒原》。
- The poem recalls Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’.
- [transitive] to order somebody to return
召回 - recall somebody Both countries recalled their ambassadors.
两个国家都召回了各自的大使。 - recall somebody to something He was recalled to military duty.
他被召回执行军事任务。 - They have both been recalled to the Welsh squad (= selected as members of the team after a time when they were not selected).
他们俩都被重新召回了威尔士队。
- recall somebody Both countries recalled their ambassadors.
- [transitive] recall something to ask for something to be returned, often because there is something wrong with it
收回，召回（残损货品等） - The company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers.
公司回收了所有有瑕疵的吹风机。
- The company has recalled all the faulty hairdryers.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a verb): from re- ‘again’ + call, suggested by Latin revocare or French rappeler ‘call back’.