N-UNCOUNT
依靠;求援;诉诸
If you achieve something without recourse to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have recourse to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.
例句
It enabled its members to settle their differences without recourse to war...
这样,其成员就可以不必诉诸战争来解决分歧。
The public believes its only recourse is to take to the streets.
公众认为唯一的办法就是上街游行。