I know this is another beastly uncheerful letter,--as bad as the last, and maybe worse,--but if you knew what we've just been through! A boy--sixteen--of unspeakable heredity has nearly poisoned himself with a disgusting mixture of alcohol and witch hazel. We have been working three days over him, and are just sure now that he is going to recuperate sufficiently to do it again! "It's a gude warld, but they're ill that's in 't."英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
He was meditating a holiday to Italy with his wife in order to recuperate, and had a trifling operation performed on his foot, which resulted, it is believed, in blood poisoning. There seemed to be no danger, and his wife was reading aloud to him as he lay in bed, when his intellect began to wander. It is doubtful whether he regained his senses before he died, on June 12, 1885.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
"I shouldn't imagine anything was much better than London. I've not been in Paris; always went home when I was on leave. They work us pretty hard. In the infantry and artillery our men get only a fortnight off in twelve months. I understand the Americans have leased the Riviera,--recuperate at Nice and Monte Carlo. The only Cook's tour we had was Gallipoli," he added grimly.英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
In fact, it was a grand sight-- about eight thousand well-mounted men riding by their beloved commander, first passing by him in a walk and then a trot. He writes to my mother next day--June 8, 1863:
"...I reviewed the cavalry in this section yesterday. It was a splendid sight. The men and horses looked well. They have recuperated since last fall. Stuart [J. Stuart, commanding cavalry corps.] was in all his glory. Your sons and nephews [two sons and three nephews] were well and flourishing.英文原著 · 《Recollections and Letters of Lee》
Granny, a convalescent home is where people rest and recuperate.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
And once she's recuperated, we'll begin her on statins and Ezetimibe, and she'll undergo lipid apheresis.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》