We need a fallback position if they won't do the job.

如果他们不干这个工作，我们就需要一个应变的方案。

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Yesterday's vote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position.

昨天的投票本身就是从早先的预备立场上的退却。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He remained COM silent and crept back to the prearranged fallback position.

他保持通讯静默，慢慢爬到预定的退却位置。

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Turkey's former foreign minister, Yasar Yakis, admitted last week that Turkey never believed that the Americans had a fallback position.

ECONOMIST: Turkey's promises were always too hard to keep

It is hard to know whether this ambition was in earnest at the time or simply the fallback position of a hyper-urbane young person with a mild case of disaffection.

NEWYORKER: What She Said

The standard fallback position of Democrats and the Obama administration is that the Washington program only helps 1, 700 children a year, and those who don't qualify are stuck in a sorry system, and they are largely poor and minority.

CNN: Commentary: Obama, Dems wrong to kill school vouchers