- bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind, especially so as to recount it to others; remember记得; 回想起, 回忆起：
I can still vaguely recall being taken to the hospital
我仍能依稀记得被送往医院的情景
with direct speech 'He was awfully fond of teasing people,' she recalled“他特别喜欢取笑人,"她回忆道
with clause he recalled how he felt at the time.他回忆当时的感觉。
- cause one to remember or think of使人想起; 提醒：
the film's analysis of contemporary concerns recalls The Big Chill.
电影对当代利害关系的分析使人想起《山水又相逢》。
recall someone/thing to
bring the memory or thought of someone or something to (a person or their mind)使忆起, 使想起：the smell of a blackcurrant bush has ever since recalled to me that evening.
成片的茶藨子散发的味道自那时起总会使我想起那个夜晚。
- call up (stored computer data) for processing or display回索, 检索, 调用（计算机储存的数据）。
- officially order (someone) to return to a place叫回, 召回：
the Panamanian ambassador was recalled from Peru.
巴拿马大使被从秘鲁召回。
- select (a sports player) as a member of a team from which they have previously been dropped召回（运动员）：
the Fulham defender has been recalled to the Welsh squad for the World Cup.
富勒姆的防守队员已被召回到威尔士队参加世界杯赛。
- (of a manufacturer) request all the purchasers of (a certain product) to return it, as the result of the discovery of a fault（制造商）将（产品）收回（或召回）。
- bring (someone) out of a state of inattention or reverie使重新集中注意力：
her action recalled him to the present.
她的行动使他将注意力重新集中在现在。
- archaic revoke or annul (an action or decision)〈古〉撤销; 废除, 废止（行动, 决定）。
- an act or instance of officially recalling someone or something召回：
a recall of Parliament.
召回议员议事。
- N. Amer. the removal of an elected government official from office by a petition followed by voting〈北美〉（请愿后经投票对政府官员的）罢免。
- mass noun the action or faculty of remembering something learned or experienced记忆（力）：
did he note the whole lot down, or did he have extraordinary recall?
他把那一大堆材料都记下来了, 抑或他有非凡的记忆力？
people's understanding and subsequent recall of stories or events.
人们对故事或事件的理解以及后来的记忆。
- the proportion of the number of relevant documents retrieved from a database in response to an enquiry回索率, 检索率。
beyond recall
- in such a way that restoration is impossible不能被记起的; 召唤不回来的, 不能挽回的; 不可取消的：
shopping developments have already blighted other parts of the city beyond recall.
购物业的发展已经将这座城市的其他几个区给彻底破坏了。