hark-back

名词 n.
英 /ˈhɑːkbæk/    美 /ˈhɑɹkˌbæk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
  2. An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event). figuratively
    — The addendum cancelling the closures refers to 14 pages […] in which Table 183 is reproduced in its old form with connections to and from Liverpool, Bradford, York, Edinburgh etc. – a hark-back to G.C. ambitions.

词形变化

hark-backs plural hark back alternative

词源

Deverbal from hark back.
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