名词

1. 依靠;求援;诉诸
If you achieve something without recourse to a particular course of action, you succeed without carrying out that action. To have recourse to a particular course of action means to have to do that action in order to achieve something.

1. act of turning to for assistance

e.g. have recourse to the courts
an appeal to his uncle was his last resort

Synonym: resortrefuge

2. something or someone turned to for assistance or security

e.g. his only recourse was the police
took refuge in lying

Synonym: refugeresort