recoil

/ɹɪˈkɔɪl/ 动词 C2

中文：后退、畏缩

To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment. (intransitive) · He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
Of a firearm: to quickly push back when fired. (intransitive)

He/she/it recoils · 过去式 recoiled · 过去分词 recoiled · -ing形式 recoiling

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And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

The soldiers interposed their bayonets, for they thought that he was about to attack the inspector, and the latter recoiled two or three steps.

Dantès recoiled from the idea of so infamous a death, and passed suddenly from despair to an ardent desire for life and liberty.

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