Revert

(verb.) go back to a previous state; 'We reverted to the old rules'.

(verb.) undergo reversion, as in a mutation.

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• They are now distributed over nearly all the civilized parts of the world, but in large ponds they readily revert to the color of the original stock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• By the way, to revert to the letters, how are you going to get them posted? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Besides, I wish at once to tell you my wishes and expectations, and then never again to revert to so painful a subject. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We are told of similar mental peculiarities running in families, and again of a tendency, as in the animals, to revert to a common or original stock. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And to this vernacular use Plato himself in the Laws seems to revert, though not always. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But, to revert to your brother's dying, with the hot muffins in his mouth, for Lady Abdy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He knows that this latter institution is not more than four or five thousand years old: may not the end revert to the beginning? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• As evening came on, he reverted to the past. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But, gradually his arm reverted home to him, and his glass was lowered and lowered until he rested it upside down upon the table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Had Rachel reverted to this unlucky accident, at the critical moment when my place in her estimation was again, and far more seriously, assailed? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Edmund reverted to the harp, and was again very happy in the prospect of hearing her play. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• His mind had reverted to Ursula. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They became panicky and reverted to an ancient superstition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You know, John dear,' she said, cheerily reverting to their former conversation, 'that I hope I may safely be trusted in great things. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is a nervous subject to me, yet I cannot help reverting to it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Yes, yes, says the good old gentleman, reverting to his lesson of wisdom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is autocracy reverting to its normal state of palace crime, blood-stained magnificence, and moral squalor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Reverting for a moment to his former refuge, he observed a cautionary movement of her eyes towards the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Wishermaydie if I don't, sir, says Jo, reverting to his favourite declaration. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Carton terminated the conversation here, by rising to help him on with his outer coat; But you, said Mr. Lorry, reverting to the theme, you are young. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• To the Spartan type the ideal State reverts in the first decline; and the character of the individual timocrat is borrowed from the Spartan citizen. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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