recover和replace分别怎么理解？

## 学生提问 Historian Frederic Lane observes that after the loss of ships in battle in the late sixteenth century, the ship-building industry no longer had the capacity to recover what it had displayed at the start of the century. 老师，这个句子转化题我没看明白。答案是Venetian ship-building failed to quickly replace the ships lost in battle at the end of the sixteenth century as it would have done earlier in the century. 我理解原句的翻译为：在16世纪战争损失的船后，造船业没有能力恢复到它在世纪之初所呈现的了。recover应该表示造船能力恢复的意思呀，它和修复船只有啥关系呢。。。 ## 权威解答 原句的英文翻译应该是：历史学家弗雷德里克•莱恩观察到，自从16世纪后期在战场上损失了船只之后，造船业再也没有能力恢复到16世纪初那样了。 这一段说的都是威尼斯的造船业。 capacity to recover，to recover 确实是指造船能力恢复。答案中 failed to replace the ships lost与原文no longer had the capacity to recover同义。 ## 知识点梳理 ### 前缀 词中位于词根前面的部分就是前缀。前缀，可以改变单词的意思。 ① <u>re</u>cover v.重新获得；恢复 ② <u>re</u>place v.把...放回；取代