resorts
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.
recourse
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。
A resort is a place where a lot of people spend their holidays.
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。
as a last resort
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.
Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort.
核武器只应被用作最后手段。
resorts , resorting , resorted
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.
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。