relapse

🇬🇧/rɪˈlæps; ˈriːlæps/ 🇺🇸/rɪˈlæps/📚 16562 1托福雅思
If you say that someone relapses into a way of behaving that is undesirable, you mean that they start to behave in that way again. 复发

noun [抽象名词]旧病复发,恶化;故态复萌,回复原状

The treatment is usually given to women with a high risk of relapse after surgery.
该治疗通常用于术后复发可能性高的女性。

verb [vi. 不及物动词](病)复发,重新恶化;返回,退回原状,故态复萌

"I wish I did," said Phil Jordan, relapsing into his usual gloom.
“我要是做了就好了,”菲尔•乔丹说着,回到平时的忧郁中。

-lapse- lapse = slide 滑动 (laps = slip,表示“滑,滑走”)relapse v. (病)复发;(罪)累犯(re 再+lapse→一再滑 下去→再次犯病等)
re + laps(滑) + e → (身体状况)再次下滑 → 再度恶化
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In 90 percent of cases the patient will relapse within six months. 90%的病人会在6个月内旧病复发。
You are well now, but mind you don't have a relapse. 你的病虽然好了,可要防止反复。
He handed in his resignation at once—and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died. 他立刻递交了辞呈——就在那天晚上,法官旧病复发,去世了。
...a relapse into the nationalism of the nineteenth century. …一个回到19世纪民族主义的倒退。