resorted是什么意思？

resorted

• v. 求助于或诉诸某事物，采取某手段或方法应急或作为对策( resort的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• The rulers have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. 统治者们求助于花言巧语, 痛哭流涕地要求恢复对他们的信任.
• The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse. 最后,这个乞丐常去济贫院.
• The navy resorted to the press-gang. 海军不得不让征兵队强制征兵。
• Newspapers resorted to personal abuse. 报纸采取了人身攻击的手段。
• Other employers have resorted to less salubrious solutions. 另一些雇主所提供的住宿条件就没那么好了.
• They resorted to sarcasm irony, invective and self - praise. 他们求助于使用挖苦、讽刺 、 谩骂和自吹自擂.
• Again he resorted to the Bowery lodging - house, brooding over where to look. 他又回到波威里街的寄宿处, 盘算着去哪里申请救济.
• Other families , besides the Aryan, may now be resorted to for the desired information. 现在我们可以从雅利安族以外的其它族系中去获取我们所想要得到的资料了.
• Kawaguchi finally resorted to an outright lie. 川口最后干脆睁着眼睛说瞎话。
• Some schools have resorted to recruiting teachers from overseas. 有些学校不得不开始从海外招收老师。

英语六级真题

They resorted to unethical practice to meet their sales quota.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  诉诸;采取
  If you resort to a course of action that you do not really approve of, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want.
  例句
  His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs... 异常紧张的工作安排使他开始吸毒。 Some schools have resorted to recruiting teachers from overseas. 有些学校不得不开始从海外招收老师。
• N-UNCOUNT
  采取;凭借;诉诸;求助
  If you achieve something without resort to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have resort to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.
  例句
  Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war. 国会有责任确保只有在所有和平手段都不奏效的情况下才会诉诸战争。
• N-COUNT
  (度假)胜地
  A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays.
  例句
  ...the ski resorts. 滑雪胜地
• PHRASE
  最后的办法;最终手段
  If you do something as a last resort, you do it because you can find no other way of getting out of a difficult situation or of solving a problem.
  例句
  Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort... 不到万不得已时不能选择使用核武器。 As a last resort you may have to accept their point of view. 最终，你可能不得不接受他们的观点。
• PHRASE
  最终
  You use in the last resort when stating the most basic or important fact that will still be true in a situation whatever else happens.
  例句
  They would in the last resort support their friends whatever they did. 无论他们的朋友做了什么，他们最终都会支持他们的朋友。