recount how/what• One delegaterecounted what an Oxfordticketcollector told her.• Later these two disciples themselves also confirmed the authorship of Moses when recounting what had happened to them.• Brenda goes on to recount what happened after she rebuffed the boy in question.• Analysis Either as a class or in small groups, ask the students to recount what happened.• He mentioned the goal but I don't rememberrecounting how it took happened.• Prosecutor Greg Jacobs called on each woman to recount how she had suffered during and after an attack by Davis.• Their relations were always cordial and, in his memoirs, Hedilla recounts how they often talked of politics.
PPVa second count of votes that happens in an election because the result was very close 重新计算选票,重点选票
—recount /riːˈkaʊnt/ verb [transitiveT]
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recount• Wilder narrowly defeated his Republicanopponent in November 1989, his 6,700-vote victory being confirmed only after a recount.• Opponents demanded a recount.• In a pressconference, Bushsupporters used the strongest language so far to impugn the legitimacy of the continued Florida recounts.• A hand recount across Florida, he said, might be acceptable.• Democrats say the errorssuggest a manualrecount would show that Gorewon Florida.• Al Gore successfully soughtrecounts in the four counties most favourable to him.• I am still trying to get them to do the recount.• But what if the recount in Florida does go Gore's way?• The swing to Gore in the recounts in Broward and haplessPalmBeach counties helped cement the party too.
Originrecount1
(1400-1500)Old North Frenchreconter, from conter“to tell, count”