单词详解 | recumbent
recumbent
音标：
美音：/rɪˈkʌmbənt/，英音：/rɪˈkʌmbənt/
听听基本释意：
见原文：https://engapi.com/article/4464
外刊例句：
It’s a classic authoritarian move: Make up a baseless charge and then demand that a loyal someone else — in this case the recumbent Republican Congress — prove it for you.
这是典型的威权主义举动：编造毫无根据的指控，然后要求忠诚的其他人——在这种情况下是现任共和党国会议员——为你证明这一点。
—Salon
Police say three Trek road bicycles, three Trek hybrid bicycles and three recumbent bicycles are valued at about $37,000.
警方表示，三辆 Trek 公路自行车、三辆 Trek 混合动力自行车和三辆卧式自行车的价值约为 37,000 美元。
—Washington Times
Looking more like a wooden shoe carrying a recumbent oil derrick, a huge seaplane, a relatively new development in aviation, passed by, two of its four engines roaring as the seaplane taxied into the U.S.
看起来更像是一只木鞋，背着一个横卧的石油井架，一架巨大的水上飞机，这是航空业的一个相对较新的发展，从它身边经过，当水上飞机滑行进入美国时，它的四个引擎中的两个发出轰鸣声
—Washington Times
基本释意：
adjective
lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
adj. 斜倚的；休息的
同义词：
accumbent,decumbent
短释义：
Recumbent starts like recline, which is an easy way to remember it. Your dad’s position in his favorite La-Z-Boy reclining chair? Recumbent. Your position when you lay back on lounge chair at the pool? Also recumbent — and in both cases, these are both positions of comfort.
躺着而不是坐直的自行车是靠背的。 Recumbent 是指以斜躺的姿势向后靠。
长释义：
Recumbent starts like recline, which is an easy way to remember it. Your dad’s position in his favorite La-Z-Boy reclining chair? Recumbent. Your position when you lay back on lounge chair at the pool? Also recumbent — and in both cases, these are both positions of comfort.
Recumbent 开始时像 recline，这是一种容易记住的方法。你爸爸在他最喜欢的 La-Z-Boy 躺椅上的位置？卧着。当你躺在游泳池的躺椅上时，你的姿势是什么？也是靠着的——在这两种情况下，这些都是舒适的姿势。
文学例句：
And it was his idea to get a recumbent stationary bicycle.
买一辆卧式固定自行车是他的主意。
—Rehab continues for comic wounded in shooting by KEVIN SIMPSON
But it isn’t alone: An identical column lies on the ground alongside, and the pairing — now inevitably understood as one standing figure and another, recumbent — comes to represent the basic sociability of all humans.
但它并不孤单：一根相同的柱子躺在旁边的地上，这对——现在不可避免地被理解为一个站立的人和另一个躺着的人——开始代表所有人的基本社交能力。
—Seeing Double? So Do Great Artists. by Blake Gopnik
In one of the exhibition’s most beautiful paintings the serene, long-haired bodhisattva Manjusri, a spiritual benefactor drawn in flowing lines, sits in meditation next to a comically ferocious, recumbent lion.
在展览中最美丽的画作之一中，宁静的长发文殊菩萨，一位用流畅的线条画出的精神施主，坐在一头凶猛可笑的卧狮旁边打坐冥想。
—Art Review: Spiritual Seeker With a Taste For the Satirical by KEN JOHNSON
词源：
recumbent (adj.)”leaning, reclining,” 1705, from Latin recumbentem (nominative recumbens), present participle of recumbere “recline, lie down, lie down again;” of things, “to fall, sink down, settle down,” from re- “back” (see re-) + -cumbere “to lie down” (related to cubare “lie down;” see cubicle). Related: Recumbency (1640s); recumbence (1670s). A verb, recumb, has been attempted in English occasionally since 1670s.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
recumbent（形容词）“倾斜，斜倚”，1705 年，来自拉丁语 recumbentem（主格 recumbens），recumbere 的现在分词“斜倚，躺下，再次躺下；”事物的“跌倒，下沉，安定下来”来自 re-“back”（见 re-）+ -cumbere“躺下”（与 cubare“躺下”相关；见 cubicle）。相关：卧床（1640 年代）；卧床（1670 年代）。自 1670 年代以来，英语中偶尔会尝试使用动词 recumb。相关条目及更多
