vt.背誦；朗誦；敘述；列舉
vi.背誦；回答問題
Can you recite the Ten Commandants? 你能背誦十誡嗎？
I like to recite his poetical works. 我喜歡背誦他的詩。
She can recite the whole poem from memory. 她能背誦全詩。
Politicians recite their liturgies in TV studios. 政客們在電視演播室里朗誦禱文。
He loved to recite his grievances. 他愛喋喋不休地敘述自己的苦難。
My family likes to recite quotations from movies. 我的家人很喜歡列舉電影里的語錄。
用作不及物動詞 (vi.)I don't like reciting in public. 我不喜歡當眾朗誦。
She got cold feet when asked to recite in class. 當她被叫起來在班上背誦時害怕了。
recite的基本意思是“背誦”,引申可作“詳述,列舉”解。在美式英語中,此詞可用于指“背課文”“回答老師關于課文的提問”。
recite可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,接名詞或代詞作賓語。
