音标:[ri'kleim] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
vt. 开垦, 改造, 感化, 纠正, 回收
vi. 喊叫, 抗议
v. claim back
v. reuse (materials from waste products)
v. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state
词型变化:过去分词 : reclaimed ; 现在分词 : reclaiming ; 过去式 : reclaimed ; 第三人称单数 : reclaims ; 名词复数形式 : reclaims
考试类型:[六级/考研/托福/IELTS/GRE]
词性分布:
动词98%
名词2%

reclaim的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. After he stopped paying the hire purchase installment, the finance company tried to reclaim his car.在他停止支付租购分期付款后,该金融公司试图收回他的汽车。
  2. You may be entitled to reclaim some of the tax you paid last year.你或许有权要求退回去年你交付的部分税金。
  3. Their daily work is to reclaim rubber from old tyres.他们的日常工作是用旧轮胎再生橡胶。
  4. It is incumbent on me to reclaim him.劝他改过是我义不容辞的义务。
  5. Her mission was to reclaim former criminals.她的任务是感化过去的罪犯。
  6. This land was reclaimed from the sea.这块土地是填海开垦出来的。

常见句型

用作动词(v.)
用作及物动词S+~+ n./pron.
  1. They reclaimed wasteland.他们开垦荒地。
  2. The farmer reclaimed the swamp by draining it.农民通过排涝来开垦那块沼泽地。
  3. He reclaimed her from a life of vice.他使她改邪归正。
  4. Society reclaims criminals by teaching them skills.社会通过教授罪犯技能来改造他们。
  5. He had no right to take your book away, so reclaim it.他无权拿走你的书,所以要把书要回来。
  6. The library reclaimed the book he borrowed a year ago.图书馆要求他归还一年前借去的那本书。
  7. At the end of the trip we reclaimed our luggage.旅行结束时,我们取回了行李。

常用短语

用作动词(v.)
reclaim from (v.+prep.)
    把(某人)从(某种不良生活方式)中拯救出来 save (sb) from (a bad way of life)

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
  • reclaim swamp开垦沼泽地
  • reclaim wasteland开垦荒地
~+介词
  • reclaim from从…回收

经典引文

  • Henrietta had reclaimed him from a life of vice.

    出自:Ld Macaulay
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