新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

resort

英  [rɪˈzɔːt]
    

[NOUN, VERB]

    NOUN. 名词
  • resorts

    1[U 不可数名词] 诉诸

    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.

    近义词

    recourse

    双语例句

    例:

    Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resort to war.

    国会有责任确保在所有的和平手段用尽之后再诉诸武力。

    2[C 可数名词] (度假)胜地

    A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays.

    双语例句

    例:

    The ski resorts are expanding to meet the growing number of skiers that come here.

    该滑雪胜地正在扩建以应对日益增多的滑雪者。

    PHRASE. 习语
  • as a last resort

    1作为最后手段

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort.

    核武器只应被用作最后手段。

    VERB. 动词
  • resorts , resorting , resorted

    1[I 不及物动词] 不得不求助

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    His punishing work schedule had made him resort to drugs.

    高度紧张劳累的工作安排已使他开始借助毒品寻求放松。