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单词 retraction
释义
retraction
noun[C]
formal
uk
/rɪˈtræk.ʃən/us
/rɪˈtræk.ʃən/
theactof taking back anofferorstatement, oradmittingthat astatementwasfalse:
撤销，收回
Thenewspaperprinteda retraction fortheirpreviouserror.报纸刊登了对他们先前错误的撤回声明。
Sheangrilydemandeda retraction.她愤怒地要求撤回。
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  • Theministerwill beissuinga written retraction.
  • She isseekingafullretraction andapologyfor thearticle.
  • He made itclearhe was notsatisfiedwith thepartialretraction.
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  • concession
  • concessionary
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  • cop tosomething
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(Definition ofretractionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

retraction| Business English

retraction
noun[CorU]
uk
/rɪˈtrækʃən/us
astatementin which youadmitthat something you said orwrotepreviouslywaswrong:
Hedemandedanimmediateretraction andapology.
Thelawyerssay thefamilymayseeka retraction of thearticle,ratherthanmoney.
a full/complete retractionWe arepressingfor afullretraction oftheirstatementanddamages.
Themagazinewill beissuinga retractioninitsnextedition.
(Definition ofretractionfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofretraction

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These results can be applied to the type retractions problem as the problem can be reduced to the higher-order matching problem using the following theorem.
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The samples from a1 to f1 retain a midline orientation that features tongueretraction.
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An elementary but interesting property of retractions is that they are inherited in higher order objects.
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In two patients (cases 3 and 4) the origin of the right and left pulmonary arteries were also involved in the fibroticretraction.
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Historically, the central vowels were allophonic variants of front vowels, but subsequent developments have rendered the difference contrastive, soretractionis neutralising.
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With certain exceptions (see below), progressiveretractionapplies across an adjacent consonant (7c).
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This pattern results from theretractionof vowels before retroflexes (see 7.1 for details).
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One of the basic questions addressed in this paper is which coronals condition fronting of vowels, and which conditionretraction.
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The converse follows immediately from the definition of theretraction.
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The introduction of payload resulted in a slightly slow response during small step retractions.
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Essentially,retractionallows end-users to modify their input and observe the consequences of those modifications without having to recalculate an entire configuration.
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Generation of andretractionfrom crosslinguistically motivated structures in bilingual first language acquisition.
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Coronals that condition fronting are produced with a fronted tongue body, while coronals that conditionretractionare produced with a back tongue body.
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Cells undergoing mitosis appeared spherical, covered with blebs and anchored to the substrate byretractionfibres.
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However, this weakretractionmust still be sufficient to permit successive coarticulation.
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