| 释义 |
reˈorientate, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. = reorient v. 1.
1933Planning 6 June 2 The most urgent necessity..for a common and intensive effort by all parties to reorientate their various points of view. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 675/1 How does one re-orientate one's philosophy and economic policy? 1959B. Wootton Soc. Science & Soc. Pathol. viii. 267 Glueck's object in treating criminality as a disease is to concentrate attention..on the practical problem of how his [sc. the offender's] behaviour may be re⁓orientated. 1981P. McCutchan Shard calls Tune xv. 163 [He] came to a small town... He knew where he was... He was re-orientated nicely.
2. refl. = reorient v. 2 a.
1940Scrutiny IX. 196 We may perhaps hope that Scotland will be able to reorientate itself with the end of the epoch that has seen its cultural disintegration. 1959M. Summerton Small Wilderness xiv. 174 Struggling to reorientate myself..I tried to place myself in his shoes. 1979J. Wainwright Duty Elsewhere xvi. 47 Cooke had reorientated himself a little. He was still dizzy. |
