Clearly, certain diseases are beating a retreat in the face of medical advances.

很明显，面对医学的进步，某些疾病正在撤退。

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Maybe you see it as beating a retreat or running away from a challenge.

你可能将其视为一种对挑战的逃避或者是放弃。

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Japan Inc went on a global buying binge 20 years ago, snatching up vanity assets such as the Rockefeller Centre and the Pebble Beach golf course before beating a hasty retreat.

日本公司在20年前大掀收购热潮，在攫取洛克菲勒中心和圆石滩高尔夫球场这些浮华资产后功成身退。

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After beating a humiliating retreat in 1996, Russian forces were sent back in 1999, following a rebel raid on the southern Russian region of Dagestan.

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It flared up over plans to mark the battle's 250th anniversary with a re-enactment, and ended with Quebec separatists crying victory and Canada's federal government beating a hasty retreat.

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But many ordinary Libyans remain skeptical that powerful militias, many of which have vast weapons arsenals, will surrender so easily and may simply be beating a tactical retreat until popular anger calms.

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