recoil: [13] Recoil has no connection with coil. In fact, etymologically it means virtually ‘withdraw backside first’, for it was coined in French on the basis of cul ‘arse, backside’. This went back to Latin cūlus ‘arse’, which was probably related to Sanskrit kūla- ‘rearguard’.
recoil (n.)
c. 1300, "retreat," from Old French recul "recoil, backward movement, retreat," from reculer (see recoil (v.)). Meaning "back-kick of a firearm" is from 1570s.
recoil (v.)
early 13c. (transitive) "force back, drive back," from Old French reculer "to go back, give way, recede, retreat" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *reculare, from Latin re- "back" (see re-) + culus "backside, bottom, fundament." Meaning "shrink back, retreat" is first recorded c. 1300; and that of "spring back" (as a gun) in 1520s. Related: Recoiled; recoiling.
例文
1. People used to recoil from the idea of getting into debt.
過去には借金というものを受け入れることができなかった。
2.His reaction was as much of a rebuff as a physical recoil .
彼の反応は体の萎縮であり、断固拒否でもある。
3.We are attracted by nice smells and recoil from nasty ones.
私たちは良い匂いに惹かれ、嫌な匂いは私たちを退避させます。
4.Most people would recoil at the sight of the snake.
蛇を見ると後ろに尻込みする人が多い。
5.Revenge may recoil upon the person who takes it.