| 词汇 | go back |
| 释义 | go backgo back phrasal verbphr v a) RETURNto return to a place that you have just come from 回去，返回 I think we ought to go back now. 我想我们现在应该回去了。 to/into/inside etc I felt so sick I just wanted to go back to bed. 我感到很恶心，只想回去睡觉。 for I had to go back for my passport (=to get my passport). 我只好回去拿护照。 b) there’s no going back spoken used to say that you cannot make a situation the same as it was before 不能回到过去 I realized that once the baby was born there would be no going back. 我意识到，一旦有了孩子，就回不到从前了。 c) [always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]PAST to have been made, built, or started at some time in the past 追溯到 It’s a tradition that goes back at least 100 years. 这个传统至少可上溯到100年前。 to The building goes back to Roman times. 这个建筑物可以追溯到古罗马时代。 d) if people go back a particular length of time, they have known each other for that length of time 相识，已认识〔一段时间〕 Peter and I go back 25 years. 我和彼得有25年的交情了。 We go back a long way (=we have been friends for a long time). 我们是多年的老朋友了。 e) to think about a particular time in the past or something that someone said before 回想〔过去的某个时候〕，回到〔原来的话题〕 If you go back 20 years, most people didn’t own a computer. 20年前，大多数人没有电脑。 to I’d like to go back to the point that was made earlier. 我想重申前面讲过的一点。 nf) the clocks go back when the clocks go back in the autumn, the time officially changes so that the clock shows one hour earlier than it was before The clocks go back in October. Examples from the Corpus go back• I swore I'd never go back.• I left my hometown 12 years ago, and I have no desire to go back.• It's no use having regrets. You can't go back!• We'll have to go back for the tickets - I think I left them on the desk.• Frank's gone back home to visit his parents and won't be back for a week.• It's cold out here - shall we go back inside?• She went back into the house.• When their car was out of sight I went back into the house.• Part of the trail was flooded, so we had to go back the way we had come.• When will you be going back to Japan?• I wish I could go back to my school days.• Yeah, Jenny and I go back to sixth grade.• In such cases, go back to the beginning and read the thing.• Wouldn't it be nice if we could go back to the days when life was slower than it is today.• You went back to work at half-past one.• The phone started ringing again as soon as I went back upstairs. go for• I had to go back for my passport. there’s no going back• Too late you realize that there's no going back.• There's no going back, even if I wanted to, which I don't. go to• Mr Ahmed had gone back to Birmingham and the family heard that he was living with another woman.• Many phrases in the language go back to early religious writings.• Our friendship goes back to our freshman year in college.• She turned around and went back to sit in the road.• In any case, she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to.• He then went back to sleep.• They made just enough money busking for him not to have to go back to that.• At the end of six or eight months, they could go back to the old way, at the old wages.• It really goes back to the Puritans.• Jo just refuses to get into a car -- it all goes back to when she had that accident.• Why don't you go back to your surgery? go back a long way• Bill and I go back a long way.• The reputation goes back a long way.• They go back a long way.• I know your aunt - in fact we go back a long way.• But I hope he will; we go back a long way.• Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way.• Iron working in the area goes back a long way.• Mankind's love affair with the apple goes back a long way.• The President and I went back a long way.• Sam and I go way back. We sat next to each other in first grade.• Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear. go to• Mr Ahmed had gone back to Birmingham and the family heard that he was living with another woman.• She turned around and went back to sit in the road.• In any case, she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to.• He then went back to sleep.• They made just enough money busking for him not to have to go back to that.• At the end of six or eight months, they could go back to the old way, at the old wages.• It really goes back to the Puritans.• Why don't you go back to your surgery? → go back at go1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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