| 词组 | recur, recurrence, reoccur, reoccurrence |
| 释义 | recur, recurrence, reoccur, reoccurrence Of these two pairs, recur and recurrence are by far the more common. A couple of commentators criticize reoccur and reoccurrence as unnecessary, but they are distinguishable in some ways from recur and recurrence. Reoccur and reoccurrence are the more basic words: they simply tell you that something happened again. Recur and especially recurrence can suggest a periodic or frequent repetition as well as the simpler notion. • Castillo was removed from the game after the third because of a muscle pull on the right side of his neck. Twins trainer Dick Martin said it was a reoccurrence of a previous injury —Tom Yantz, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, 20 May 1983 In this example, reoccurrence merely says that the muscle pull had happened before; if the trainer had used recurrence, it could have suggested that the player had had the same injury more than once before. This does not quite mean, as one or two critics hold, that reoccurrence means one repetition only; it rather implies nothing about the number of repetitions, whereas recurrence is likely to. But such niceties aside, most writers make do with recur and recurrence: • There was a recurrence of this after the cataract operation —James Thurber, letter, 18 Dec. 1950 • ... institutions specifically created to prevent a recurrence of past fiscal problems —Felix G. Roha-tyn, The Twenty-Year Century, 1983 • ... the motifs have become so numerous... that the mind cannot hold them together. One can only enjoy them as they occur and recur —George Stade, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 17 June 1979 |
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