return是什么意思

vt. 返回；报答

vi. 返回；报答

n. 返回；归还；回球

adj. 报答的；回程的；返回的

中文词源

return 归来，返回

re-,向后，往回，turn,转。引申词义归来，返回。

return: return: [14] The origins of return are in Vulgar Latin. There, Latin tornāre (source of English turn), which originally meant ‘turn on a lathe’, was combined with the prefix re- ‘back’ to produce *retornāre ‘turn back’, which passed via Old French retorner into English as return.
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return (v.): early 14c., "to come back, come or go back to a former position" (intransitive), from Old French retorner "turn back, turn round, return" (Modern French retourner), from re- "back" (see re-) + torner "to turn" (see turn (v.)). Transitive sense of "report officially" is early 15c.; "to send back" is mid-15c.; that of "to turn back" is from c. 1500. Meaning "to give in repayment" is 1590s; that of "give back, restore" c. 1600. Related: Returned; returning.
return (n.): late 14c., "act of coming back," also "official report of election results," from Anglo-French retorn, Old French retorne, verbal noun from retorner (see return (v.)). In ball games from 1833; specifically in tennis from 1886. Meaning "a yield, a profit" is recorded from 1620s. Meaning "a thing sent back" is from 1875. Many happy returns of the day was used by Addison (1716). Mailing return address attested from 1884.

1. I will return, find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.: 我会回去，找到你，爱你，娶你，活的光明正大。《赎罪》

2. Ellery's return will help to chase away some of the gloom.: 埃勒里的归来可以驱散一些抑郁的情绪。

3. Return the enclosed Donation Form today in the prepaid envelope provided.: 请于今日将随函附上的捐款表格用所提供的邮资预付的信封寄回。

4. Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America.: 福特从未停止过劝说他返回美国。

5. They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.: 他们呼吁对恐怖分子重新实施不经审讯即行拘留政策。