Recursive refers to things that repeat over and over.

递归性指的是不断复的事情。

Invention is both systematic and recursive, qualities which impact how we practice it.

发明具有系统性和递归性，这些特质会影响我们如何实践发明。

The Writing Process generally has an order, but it's also recursive, or a thing that repeats itself.

写作过程般都有顺序，但它也是递归循环的，或者说是复的过程。

The utterances often have order but this order tends to be very limited and lacks the recursive properties.

话语通常具有顺序，但这顺序非常有限并且缺乏递归特性。

Like drafting, which is recursive and sometimes needs to be done more than once, it's normal to have to revise more than once.

就像起草样，起草具有递归性，有要做不止次，修改不止次也很正常。

Combined with a taste for bizarrely complicated, recursive plots, and long sequences of wordy explicatory dialogue, this turns the games into a bit of a drag.

再加上对离奇复杂、递归情节的喜爱，以及长串冗长的解释性对话，这使得游戏变得有点拖沓。

She knows that invention is recursive, so she doesn't just press on with her original topic; she adds what she now knows and comes up with a more interesting, complex paper.

她知道发明具有递归性，所以她并没有继续研究原来的主题，而是将现在所知道的知识添加进去，写出了篇更有趣、更复杂的论文。

Recursion was a good candidate for a universal grammar rule because it can take many forms. However, in 2005 linguists published findings on an Amazonian language called Piraha, which doesn't appear to have any recursive structures.

递归是通用语法规则的个很好的候选者， 因为它可以采用多形式。然而，2005 年语言学家发表了关于名为 Piraha 的亚马逊语言的研究结果， 该语言似乎没有任何递归结构。

And there was also this recursive relationship between the two approaches in that, the cultural changes created an environment that were conducive to the functional change and that functional changes then, in return supported the systems for cultural changes.

这两方法之间也存在这递归关系, 即文化变化创造了个有利于功能变化的环境, 而功能变化则反过来支持了文化变化的系统。