英:[ˌretrəʊ'vɜ:t]
美:[ˌretrə'vɜt]
英:[ˌretrəʊ'vɜ:t]
美:[ˌretrə'vɜt]
Verb
1. go back to a previous state;
"We reverted to the old rules"
1 As he washed he saw with half a retroverted eye the round table spread with china and glass and silver.
2 The “retrovert” or bent-back first pair of appendages is provided with a poison gland opening on the fang or terminal segment.
3 A view of the interior 687 of the sub-pallial chamber, as seen when the mantle-skirt is retroverted and the observer faces in the direction indicated by the reference line passing from e in fig.
4 He ate the oats, but with retroverted eye watched her.
5 Another leaped, and landed with his feet on the other bank, his haunches in the water, and his rider curled round his neck, and glaring out between his retroverted ears.
6 The epidermoid papillæ are of a nature similar to those retroverted prominences so remarkable on the tongue of the cat; as well as in the lion, and some other animals.
7 The state of happiness so exalted that it became almost holiness, in which he had been that very night, flung him to lower depths when it was retroverted.
8 Thus absorbed was I in thought When there came to me the echo Of a sigh half heard, for half To its owner retroverted.
1 翻转
resupinate over turnover upturn turn reverse flip overturn keel inverse retroflex wrong reflection eversion retroversion retroflexion tip capsize evert overset evaginate wingover
2 倒退
retrograde reactionary recessive retrogressive bass-ackward back setback regress retrogression retrogradation retroversion backset reverse backslide retrogress go backward
6 后曲