Recourse

(noun.) act of turning to for assistance; 'have recourse to the courts'; 'an appeal to his uncle was his last resort'.

(noun.) something or someone turned to for assistance or security; 'his only recourse was the police'; 'took refuge in lying'.

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• Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It seemed almost axiomatic that for true knowledge we must have recourse to concepts coming from a reason above experience. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Or, in less extreme cases, there is recourse to idle amusement; to anything which passes time with immediate agreeableness. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• This was always my cordial, to which, like other dram-drinkers, I had eager recourse when unsettled by chagrin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In one group, it may be met by recourse to fisticuffs, in another by a challenge to a duel, in a third by an exhibition of contemptuous disregard. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We assembled again towards evening, and Perdita insisted on our having recourse to music. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• To the former they were compelled, though reluctantly, to have recourse. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Recourse was had to the inventions of the ancients, from whom the paddle-wheel was taken, to find some other means of propulsion. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It was evident, from Mr. Trotter's flushed countenance and defective intonation, that he, too, had had recourse to vinous stimulus. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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