recoiling

基本解释

Recoiling in pain, I’d scrape my back or arms on the scaly tree bark.
碰疼时我本能后退，结果又被粗糙的树皮擦伤背或胳膊。
Finding more recoiling black holes will provide a better understanding of the characteristics of black holes before they merge.
发现更多冲撞后的黑洞将为我们了解黑洞在合并前的特性提供有利帮助。
For more than a century, ever since its tongue lapped at the edge of Mingyong village, the glacier has retreated like a dying serpent recoiling into its lair.
一个世纪以前，明永冰川这条巨龙的舌头曾延伸至山下村庄的边缘，而现在这条巨龙已经畏缩到自己的洞穴，奄奄一息。

And people, they would rip off your shirt to see if you had a bruise from a recoiling rifle.
人们会扯掉你的衬衣,看你胸口是否有步枪后作力造成的瘀伤
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She had a wary, melancholic air and was curled up in a chair, as though recoiling from the camera that she knew was embedded in the wall behind her husband.
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Recoil is also a noun.
If you recoil from doing something or recoil at the idea of something, you refuse to do it or accept it because you dislike it so much.