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VERB
恢復,回復(到以前的狀態、制度或行為)
When people or things revert to a previous state, system, or type of behaviour, they go back to it.
例句
Jackson said her boss became increasingly depressed and reverted to smoking heavily.
杰克遜說她的老板情緒越來越低落,又開始拼命抽煙了。
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VERB
回到,重提,重新考慮(某個話題)
When someone reverts to a previous topic, they start talking or thinking about it again.
例句
In the car she reverted to the subject uppermost in her mind.
在車里,她又提起了她最關心的話題。
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VERB
重新使用(慣用的語言)
If you revert to your usual language, you start using that language again.
例句
After all these years she had reverted to her Veneto dialect and nobody could understand what she was saying.
這么多年后,她又開始講威尼托方言,沒有人能聽懂她的話。
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VERB
(財產、權力、金錢等)歸還,歸屬
If property, rights, or money revert to someone, they become that person's again after someone else has had them for a period of time.
例句
When the lease ends, the property reverts to the freeholder.
租期結束后,該房產會歸還給其終身所有者。
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PHRASE
恢復原樣;故態復萌
If you say that someone has reverted to type, you mean that they are now behaving as you would expect them to, after having behaved in an unexpected and better way.
例句
He was adamant that this setback does not mean he has reverted to type.
他堅持認為這次挫折并不意味著他已經回到原來的樣子。