名词

1. 认识;识别;认出
Recognition is the act of recognizing someone or identifying something when you see it.

2. 承认;接受;理解
Recognition of something is an understanding and acceptance of it.

3. （政府对他国的）外交认可，正式承认
When a government gives diplomatic recognition to another country, they officially accept that its status is valid.

4. 赞赏;好评;认可
When a person receives recognition for the things that they have done, people acknowledge the value or skill of their work.

5. 面目全非;认不出来;无法辨认
If you say that someone or something has changed beyond recognition or out of all recognition, you mean that person or thing has changed so much that you can no longer recognize them.

6. 获官方认可;正式承认
If something is done in recognition of someone's achievements, it is done as a way of showing official appreciation of them.

1. designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body

e.g. he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman

2. the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

e.g. a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces
experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer

Synonym: identification

3. coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

e.g. a growing realization of the risk involved
a sudden recognition of the problem he faced
increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases

Synonym: realizationrealisation

4. an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid

e.g. the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States

5. approval

e.g. give her recognition for trying
he was given credit for his work
give her credit for trying

Synonym: credit

6. the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country

e.g. territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991

7. (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape

e.g. molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities

8. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

e.g. the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work
she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own

Synonym: acknowledgmentacknowledgement