回收 (huí shōu) — to recycle; to reclaim (waste materials for reuse); to recall (defective products); to recover (lost data/files)
Definition
回收 means to recycle or reclaim materials, or to recall/recover something (products, data). The closest sibling 再生 focuses on materials being reborn into new use, while 回收 is the act of collecting them back.
verb
to recycleto reclaim (waste materials for reuse)to recall (defective products)to recover (lost data/files)
Examples
- 回收。Zhè zhǒng sù liào píng kě yǐ huí shōu lì yòng.This kind of plastic bottle can be recycled and reused.
- 回收。Gōng sī zhǔ dòng huí shōu le suǒ yǒu wèn tí chǎn pǐn.The company voluntarily recalled all defective products.
- 回收。Gōng chéng shī cóng yìng pán zhōng huí shōu le zhòng yào wén jiàn.The engineer recovered important files from the hard drive.
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