单词recant
v.: 改变；取消主张；收回前言；撤回声明
网络: 一点一点地放弃了
取消主张;收回前言;撤回声明;公开认错
改变,取消,护回(主张等)
改变;声明放弃
第三人称单数：recants
现在分词：recanting
过去式：recanted
v.take backrenouncerepudiatedisavowretract
v.avow
Seven of nine witnesses against Mr. Davis recanted after trial. Six said the police threatened them if they did not identify Mr. Davis.
9名反对Davis的目击者中就有7名在审判后说如果他们辨认不出Davis警察就会威胁他们。
For the sake of his life, Galileo recanted his views in 1633, admitting that the earth did not spin on its own axis.
为了保住性命，1633年，伽利略被迫宣布放弃日心说，承认地球并不是绕着地轴旋转的。
Under duress from the Inquisition in 1633, Galileo recanted his theory that the earth revolves around the sun.
一六三三年，伽利略在宗教裁判所的威逼之下，宣布放弃自己的地动论。
She later recanted the confession and has denied wrongdoing, he said.
她后来否认自己的供词，并否认有任何过错，他说。
The author of those words has since recanted, and experts are increasingly coming to view happiness as a talent, not an inborn trait.
这些话其后否定本身的作家，专家们正日益将其视为一个天才的快乐，而不是生成的特质。
Hawking could not reconcile the conflict, and a few years ago he recanted his position on information loss.
霍金无能为力，几年后也放弃了自己对信息消失这一理念的坚持。
She later recanted that confession and has denied wrongdoing.
她之后撤回认罪自白并否认有任何行为不当。