the fact of having to, or being able to, use something that can provide help in a difficult situation依靠；依赖；求助- Your only recourse is legal action.你的唯一依靠就是诉诸法律。🔊🔊
- recourse to something The government, when necessary, has recourse to the armed forces.政府在必要时可以动用军队。🔊🔊
- without recourse to something She made a complete recovery without recourse to surgery.她未做手术就完全恢复了健康。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- Citizens have learned that they do have recourse against governments.公民已认识到他们有向政府求偿的权利。
- Drivers have little recourse but to wait until the weather clears.司机们除了等待天气放晴外别无他法。
- I have no other recourse than to inform the police.除了告知警察外我别无选择。
- She often had recourse to her dictionary.她经常求助于词典。
- The mother of an illegitimate child had no legal recourse to the father.在法律上，私生子的母亲对孩子的父亲无求偿权。
- The study of these creatures has been conducted without direct recourse to living specimens.对这些生物的研究是在未直接利用活体标本的情况下进行的。
- Their system of dispute resolution avoids recourse to the courts.他们处理纠纷的体制使之不必诉诸法庭。
- There is no recourse available to the victim.受害人无处可获得帮助。
- They tried to settle the dispute without recourse to the courts.他们试图不通过法庭解决这一争端。
- a charity for women with no recourse to public funds为不能得到公共基金资助的妇女建立的慈善机构
- people who deal with emotional pain by recourse to drugs and alcohol靠毒品和酒精缓解感情痛苦的人
- workers who have no recourse to trade unions得不到工会帮助的工人
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + recoursepreposition- by recourse to
- with (no) recourse to
- without recourse to
- …
phrases- recourse available to somebody
See full entry Word Originlate Middle English (also in the sense ‘running or flowing back’): from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, from re- ‘back, again’ + cursus ‘course, running’.