首页英语词典returnreturn的意思

return

英 [rɪ'tɜːn] 美[rɪ'tɝn]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词back repay give reimburse

反义词

vt. 返回；报答
vi. 返回；报答
n. 返回；归还；回球
adj. 报答的；回程的；返回的

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词态变化

复数: returns;第三人称单数: returns;过去式: returned;过去分词: returned;现在分词: returning;

中文词源

return 归来，返回

re-,向后，往回，turn,转。引申词义归来，返回。

英英释意

1. document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability;: "his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return"

2. a coming to or returning home;: "on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party"

3. the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction

4. getting something back again;: "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"

5. the act of returning to a prior location;: "they set out on their return to the base camp"

6. the income arising from land or other property;: "the average return was about 5%"

7. happening again (especially at regular intervals);: "the return of spring"

8. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);: "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher"

9. the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed

10. a reciprocal group action;: "in return we gave them as good as we got"

11. a tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player;: "he won the point on a cross-court return"

12. (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble

13. the act of someone appearing again;: "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited"

英文词源

return: return: [14] The origins of return are in Vulgar Latin. There, Latin tornāre (source of English turn), which originally meant ‘turn on a lathe’, was combined with the prefix re- ‘back’ to produce *retornāre ‘turn back’, which passed via Old French retorner into English as return.
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return (v.): early 14c., "to come back, come or go back to a former position" (intransitive), from Old French retorner "turn back, turn round, return" (Modern French retourner), from re- "back" (see re-) + torner "to turn" (see turn (v.)). Transitive sense of "report officially" is early 15c.; "to send back" is mid-15c.; that of "to turn back" is from c. 1500. Meaning "to give in repayment" is 1590s; that of "give back, restore" c. 1600. Related: Returned; returning.
return (n.): late 14c., "act of coming back," also "official report of election results," from Anglo-French retorn, Old French retorne, verbal noun from retorner (see return (v.)). In ball games from 1833; specifically in tennis from 1886. Meaning "a yield, a profit" is recorded from 1620s. Meaning "a thing sent back" is from 1875. Many happy returns of the day was used by Addison (1716). Mailing return address attested from 1884.

同义词辨析

answer, reply, respond, retort, return

这些动词均有"回答"之意。

answer：常用词，指用书面、口头或行动对他人的请求、询问、质问等作出回答或反应。

reply：较正式用词，较少用于口语。侧重经过考虑的较正式答复。

respond：正式用词，指即刻的，以口头或行动对外来的号召、请求或刺激等作出回答或响应。

retort：指对不同意见、批评或控诉作出迅速、有力的回答，即"反驳"。

return：正式用词，从本义"归来，回去"引申作"回答、答辨"讲时，含反驳或反唇相讥之意。

考试真题

And the rises were short-lived: prices typically returned to normal with the next harvest.

And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.

When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

Perhaps a return to real cooking needn't be far off.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

Once, just after I returned from my year in Vienna, I was asked to translate for a German judge at an Olympiclevel horse event.

His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.

The return of home-style dishes.

Her main reason for returning to academia mid-career was to take advantage of the greater freedom to choose research questions.

Guy Grant, now a research associate at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge, spent two years working for a pharmaceutical (制药的) company before returning to university as a post-doctoral researcher

I'll tell my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I'll get it when I return.

Further evidence of McLaughlin's irresponsibility occurred on May 6 when he was returning from his shift.

When Donna returned to the States, she couldn't settle down.

I was so grateful, " Aarons says, " but I persuaded Pat to let me return the favour in my own way with season tickets to our little theater group.

What does Aaron do to return Pat's favor

Well, I guess I'd sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs till I could afford a return plane ticket.

It also slows down more as you move faster, which means astronauts (宇航员) someday may survive so long in space that they would return to an Earth of the distant future

She quit her job when she became pregnant, but is now interested in returning to work.

"When they see that carrier back out on the street," Swigart said, "that's the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.

Aydin Municipality bought the plane from a private company for just under US100,000, but they hope to see a return on that investment through the tourism industry.

Some services, however, remind us that life will eventually return, in some form, to normal.

The note inside the bottle said, "Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel."

They hope to return to the site with geologists for an additional search as there could before fossils near the site.

When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

A full 18 percent have even returned devices until they feel they can get safer guarantees against having their sensitive information hacked.

When they returned home, their droppings end up all around their nesting sites, including in nearby ponds.

Investors will invest in a bond considered risky only if the potential return is high enough.

He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years

Even if the question is ostensibly (表面上) about something outside the self (describe a fictional character or solve a problem of geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is its impact on YOU?

He was happy to see the return of the do-it-yourself spirit in America.

The more one saves, the more returns one will reap.

In return for the scale of investment, they should share their expertise in order to build greater confidence in the sector.

Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town.

Anyway, you are one of the few people who actually return books to me.

She never expected anyone to return the books to her

Most borrowers never returned the books to her.

Then it is returned to the box.

The man will return home before going to the concert.

And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.

In return for an average of £44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture form

The team plans to return to around a dozen of the buildings to assess progress and consider further action.

Thus the more imbalanced we become due to overworking, the more value there is in activities that allow us to return to a state of balance.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

Amy, as well as her brothers, was given a warm welcome when returning to the village last week.

Axani wrote in his post that he is not looking for anything in return and that the woman who uses the looking for ticket can choose to either travel with him or take the ticket and travel on her own.

But in order to stay in business, arts groups must produce returns.

But unlike most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals' rightful owners, and returns them.

During those six months of hospitalizations, Becky, 12 at the time, adjusted to other adults being in the house when she returned from school.

Ehlers returned to minnesotan, and then drove 100 miles to minneapolis to put rosie on a flight to Michigan.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business.

For Pahlsson, its return was a wonder.

Forms will be available in school and online for them to indicate their choices and return to school.

He couldn't return it when it was broken.

He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because without shelter, he could die that night.

Her family had just returned from abroad, and got a message from the vet.

If you're not satisfied, return it.

In return, we expect students to work hard.

Investing time in parenting would bring a financial return.

It was when we were returning home that I realized what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in trouble.

It's nice to return to learn what she loves.

Luck stayed with them: Paris' heartbeat returned.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him: he meant business.

My mother's call returned me to the real world.

Nasa is worried about two things: recovery time once astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to mars.

Once, after a trip to Hollywood, I returned to Australia so depressed and spent months in my bedroom painting, listening to Eckhart Tolle's music and trying to find myself again.

One school day, Alice returned home very late.

Peter returned the word game for $ 1, 000.

Prevention is key, scientists says because once ecosystems pass their tipping point, it is remarkably difficult for them to return.

Remember that you can expect the best in return.

Satisfied that I'd done a good job, I would happily return the comb to dad.

She asked me whether I had returned the books to the library, and I admitted that I hadn't.

She returns to work feeling energized.

Simon had returned to returned to the camp at the foot of the mountain.

So, we're leaving on Monday from Hosfield International airport, and returning on Friday.

The purpose of a pony drift is to gather them up so their health can be checked, the baby ones can be stooped from feeding on their mother's milk, and those who've gone beyond their limited area can be returned to their correct area.

To return to the problem of water pollution, I'd like you to look at a study conducted in Australia in 2012.

Upon her return home, Alice was filled with joy at the news.

Wet days will return next month, though.

When Natalie returned to rockaway after the hurricane, she found her neighborhood was destroyed.

When the car's owner John anderson and his colleague Carol Lawrence returned to the car-which was itself worth ￡35, 000—in Glasgow city centre, they were shocked to find two policemen standing next to it.

When they returned to rockaway the next day, they found their neighborhood in ruins.

Zac recently returned another lost medal to a family in Alabama.

Yet two years before Dicken’s birth, his mother’s father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is “distasteful” and “nasty.

But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for the process.

Americans are willing to tolerate time-consuming security procedures in return for increased safety.

But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.

But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for process.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is "distasteful" and "nasty".

The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants.

This could lead to the rats better remembering having freed it earlier, and wanting the robot to return the favour when they get trapped, says Quinn.

This would be reasonable if it were not for the fact that scientists can easily arrange to cite themselves in their future publications, or get associates to do so for them in return for similar favours.

Yet two years before Dickens' birth, his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return.

词组搭配

by return (of post)

(Brit.)in the next available mail delivery to the sender

(英)由最早一班回程邮递送

many happy returns (of the day)

used as a greeting to someone on their birthday

（生日祝贺用语）祝你长命百岁

return thanks

(Brit.)express thanks, especially in a grace at a meal or in response to a toast or condolence

(英)（尤用于饭前祷告或回应祝酒或慰问）致谢，感谢

in return

In repayment or reciprocation.

回报的：作为回报或回复的

实用场景例句

I waited a long time for him to return.: 我等他回来等了很长时间。

She's returning to Australia tomorrow after six months in Europe.: 她在欧洲逗留了六个月，明天要返回澳大利亚了。

I returned from work to find the house empty.: 我下班回来，发现屋里空无一人。

When did she return home from the trip?: 她是什么时候旅行回来的？

We had to return the hairdryer to the store because it was faulty.: 我们不得不将吹风机退回商店，因为它有残损。

I must return some books to the library.: 我得把一些书还给图书馆。

Blair will return to London tonight...: 今晚布莱尔将返回伦敦。

Our correspondent Stephen Sackur has just returned from the camps on the border...: 我们的通讯记者斯蒂芬·萨克刚从边境的营地回来。

Ryle explained the reason for his sudden return to London.: 赖尔解释了他突然返回伦敦的原因。

I enjoyed the book and said so when I returned it...: 我喜欢这本书，并且在还书时也这样说了。

The car was not returned on time, then was reported stolen.: 这辆车没有按时归还，然后就报失了。

He returned the notebook to his jacket.: 他把笔记本放回到他的夹克里。

Back at the station the Chief Inspector returned the call...: 探长回到警察局后回了电话。

She will be disappointed if her feelings are not returned.: 如果她的感情得不到回报，她会感到非常失望。

Official reports in Algeria suggest that calm is returning to the country...: 阿尔及利亚的官方报告表明这个国家正在恢复往日的平静。

The pain returned in waves.: 疼痛又如潮水般阵阵袭来。

Life has improved and returned to normal.: 生活已经改善并恢复了正常。

The power of the Church is one theme all these writers return to.: 所有这些作家都回归到了教会权力这个主题上。

At that stage he will be 52, young enough to return to politics if he wishes to do so.: 那时他将会是52岁，还很年轻，如果他希望的话，仍可重返政坛。

They returned a verdict of not guilty.: 他们宣布了无罪的判决。

He bought a return ticket and boarded the next train for home.: 他买了往返票，并登上了下一趟回家的火车。

Buy an extra ticket for the return trip.: 多买一张返程票。

Profits have picked up this year but the return on capital remains tiny...: 今年的利润已经回升，但是资本收益仍然很少。

Higher returns and higher risk usually go hand in hand.: 更高的收益通常伴随着更高的风险。

He was convicted of filing false income tax returns...: 他因为在纳税申报表上作假而被定罪。

Anyone with slight complications in their tax affairs is likely to be asked to fill in a return.: 任何在税务方面情况稍微复杂的人都可能要填写税收申报表。

Early returns show Bulgaria's opposition party may have won.: 早期的选举结果表明保加利亚的反对党可能已获胜。

You pay regular premiums and in return the insurance company will pay out a lump sum.: 你定期支付保险费，而保险公司则会一次性给你一笔钱作为回报。

The deal offers an increase in policy value in return for giving up guarantees.: 作为放弃担保的交换，这笔交易将提高保单价值。

The release of Mr Nelson Mandela marked the point of no return in South Africa's movement away from apartheid.: 纳尔逊·曼德拉先生的释放标志着南非种族隔离政策一去不复返。

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by return (of post)

many happy returns (of the day)

return thanks

in return

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