refresh

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re·fresh /rɪˈfreʃ/ verb

1 [transitiveT]RECOVER/GET BETTER to make someone feel less tired or less hot 使恢複精力，使提神；使清涼

A shower will refresh you.

洗個淋浴你就涼快了。

refresh yourself (with something)

He refreshed himself with a glass of iced tea.

他喝了杯冰茶提了提神。

2 refresh somebody’s memory REMIND/MAKE somebody REMEMBERto make someone remember something 使某人想起，喚起某人的記憶

I looked at the map to refresh my memory of the route.

我看看地圖，回憶這條路線。

Examples from the Corpus

refresh somebody’s memory• Before the exam he read through his notes once more to refresh his memory.• If you can't remember where you were on June 15, Mr Ball, maybe these photos will refresh your memory.

3 refresh somebody’s drink American EnglishAmEDFD to add more of an alcoholic drink to someone’s glass 給某人添酒 SYN British English top somebody up

Can I refresh your drink?

我給你再加點酒好嗎？

4. [intransitiveI, transitiveT] technicalTD if you refresh your computer screen while you are connected to the Internet, you make the screen show any new information that has arrived since you first began looking at it 刷新，更新〔網頁〕 SYN update

—refreshed adjectiveadj

Jen returned from vacation feeling relaxed and refreshed.

珍度假歸來，感到輕輕鬆鬆、神清氣爽。

Examples from the Corpus

refresh• Karl von Bruhel awoke feeling calm and refreshed.• Having eaten, I felt refreshed and calm as I got into bed.• A brief nap was enough to refresh him after the flight.• He could have returned refreshed in the morning to kill off the match completely.• She had insisted on coming with me to refresh, so she said, her memory of that ghastly old trout.

refresh yourself (with something)• She must enter without fear and bathe and refresh herself.• To a large extent, however, Wright thinks people tend to refresh each other.• You can always take a few days off immediately before the exam to rest and refresh yourself.• You must take a turn around the garden, ma mie, to refresh yourself.• After refreshing himself at the bar, Isaac came back for him, prescient to the altered expectations of official white men.• It could wait the length of time it took a man to refresh himself with December air.• Here presumably Miss Wharton and her fellow helpers would arrange the flowers, wash out their dusters, refresh themselves with tea.• Perhaps he should refresh himself with the facts.

From Longman Business Dictionary

refreshre·fresh /rɪˈfreʃ/ verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]COMPUTING

to make your computer screen show any new information that has arrived while you have been looking at a particular website etc

Origin refresh

(1300-1400) Old French refreschir, from freis “fresh”

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