redescend

英語

詞源

re- +‎ descend

動詞

redescend (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 redescends，現在分詞 redescending，一般過去時及過去分詞 redescended)

1. (及物、不及物) 重新降下；重新降臨
   • 1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, 「A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,」 p. 67,^[1]

     To thee sweet Spirit I return

     That love wherwith my heart doth burn,

     And these bless』d notions of my brain

     I now breath up to thee again,

     O let them redescend, and still

     My soul with holy raptures fill.

   • 1786, The Monthly Review, Volume 75, Appendix, Article 32, p. 544,^[2]

     […] these vapours rise […] [and] are expanded in the rarefied air before they redescend in the form of clouds and drizzling rain;

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   • 1999, Jeffrey Moore, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, New York: Putnam, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 40,^[3]

     I redescended the stairs, umbrella in hand, and slammed the door for the third time.

異序詞

• descender

法語

動詞

redescend

1. redescendre 的第三人稱單數現在時直陳式

異序詞

• descendre