turn back
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
— Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
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To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
— The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
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To return to a previous state of being.
— He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
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To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
— The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
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To adjust to a previous setting.
— In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
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To fold something back; to fold down.
— When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
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To give back; to return.
— We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands.
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