back /bæk/ CET4

• 1. 

  ADV If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before. 向后

  例：

  She stepped back from the door expectantly.

  她充满期待地从门口往后退。

  例：

  He pushed her away and she fell back on the wooden bench.

  他把她推开，然后她向后跌坐在长木椅上。

• 2. 

  ADV If you go back somewhere, you return to where you were before. 回到原处

  例：

  I went back to bed.

  我回到床上。

  例：

  I'll be back as soon as I can.

  我会尽快回来。

• 3. 

  ADV If someone or something is back in a particular state, they were in that state before and are now in it again. 恢复原状

  例：

  The rail company said it expected services to get slowly back to normal.

  铁路公司称，预计服务会慢慢恢复正常。

• 4. 

  ADV If you give or put something back, you return it to the person who had it or to the place where it was before you took it. If you get or take something back, you then have it again after not having it for a while. (放、取) 回

  例：

  She handed the knife back.

  她把小刀递了回去。

  例：

  Put it back in the freezer.

  把它放回到冰柜里。

• 5. 

  ADV in reply, repayment, or retaliation 回复、偿还或报复地

  例：

  to hit someone back

  例：

  pay back a debt

  例：

  to answer back

• 6. 

  ADV If you put a clock or watch back, you change the time shown on it so that it shows an earlier time, for example, when the time changes to standard time. (将钟、表等拨) 回 [ADV after v]

  例：

  The clocks go back at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning.

  钟明天早上往回拨到2点。

• 7. 

  ADV If you write or call back, you write to or telephone someone after they have written to or telephoned you. If you look back at someone, you look at them after they have started looking at you. 作为回复; 往回 (望)

  例：

  They wrote back to me and told me I didn't have to do it.

  他们给我回信告诉我不必做它。

  例：

  If the phone rings, say you'll call back after dinner.

  如果有电话，就说你晚饭后打回去。

• 8. 

  ADV You can say that you go or come back to a particular point in a conversation to show that you are mentioning or discussing it again. 回到 (先前谈论的地方)

  例：

  Can I come back to the question of policing once again?

  我能回过头来再说说治安问题吗？

• 9. 

  ADV If something is or comes back, it is fashionable again after it has been unfashionable for some time. 再度 (流行)

  例：

  Short skirts are back.

  短裙又流行起来了。

• 10. 

  ADV If someone or something is kept or situated back from a place, they are at a distance away from it. 在一段距离之外

  例：

  Keep back from the edge of the platform.

  请勿靠近站台边缘。

  例：

  I'm a few miles back from the border.

  我离边境有几英里远。

• 11. 

  ADV If something is held or tied back, it is held or tied so that it does not hang loosely over something. 收拢地 [ADV after v]

  例：

  The curtains were held back by tassels.

  窗帘用流苏扎了起来。

• 12. 

  ADV If you lie or sit back, you move your body backward into a relaxed sloping or flat position, with your head and body resting on something. 后仰地; 后靠地 [ADV after v]

  例：

  She lay back and stared at the ceiling.

  她躺下来，盯着天花板。

• 13. 

  ADV If you look or shout back at someone or something, you turn to look or shout at them when they are behind you. 回头向后 (看或喊)

  例：

  Nick looked back over his shoulder and then stopped, frowning.

  尼克扭过头朝后看，然后皱着眉头停了下来。

• 14. 

  ADV You use back in expressions like back in Chicago or back at the house when you are giving an account, to show that you are going to start talking about what happened or was happening in the place you mention. 在 (某地)

  例：

  Meanwhile, back in Everett, Marc Fulmer is busy raising money to help get the project off the ground.

  此时在埃弗里特，马克·富尔默正忙着筹资来帮助该项目启动。

• 15. 

  ADV If you talk about something that happened back in the past or several years back, you are emphasizing that it happened quite a long time ago. 早在 [强调]

  例：

  The story starts back in 1950, when I was five.

  这件事始于1950年，当时我5岁。

• 16. 

  ADV If you think back to something that happened in the past, you remember it or try to remember it. 回 (想)

  例：

  I thought back to the time in 1975 when my son was desperately ill.

  我回想起1975年的时候，当时我儿子病得很重。

• 17. 

  PHRASE If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction. 来回地

  例：

  He paced back and forth.

  他来回踱步。

• 18. 

  to cast your mind back →see mind